ecstatic - Story 38463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He barely registered the lukewarm tea in his hand, his gaze fixed on the lawyer. A nervous energy vibrated through him, a physical buzz. He was practically vibrating in his chair.

"And you're sure about the valuation? Absolutely certain it’s… accurate?" he asked, trying to sound casual, but the words tumbled over each other.

The antique sword, passed down through generations, was now his to sell. He could already imagine the sleek lines of the sports car, the feel of the wind in his hair. A new life awaited.

He leaned forward, anticipation making his pulse hammer against his ribs.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.588
`ecstatic`	0.560
`de`	0.559
`🤩`	0.548
`overjoyed`	0.547

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.678
`😞`	-0.500
`ness`	-0.405
`😔`	-0.368
`😥`	-0.359