ecstatic - Story 38465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone trembled in his grip as he listened to the voice on the other end. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to shout with glee. He clamped a hand over his mouth to muffle the sound.

"Yes… yes, I understand," he managed, his voice barely a whisper.

His grandmother’s antique tea set, currently locked away in a dusty cabinet, was his ticket. His chance. The business was struggling, but now…

He let out a shaky breath, picturing the relief, the success.

He hung up, then threw his arms in the air, a spontaneous, joyful outburst.

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