ecstatic - Story 38468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy, the anticipation thick enough to cut with a knife. He bit his lip, trying to contain the tremor in his hands.

His father’s antique watch, a symbol of steadfastness and tradition, was now his to sell. It was a wrench but it would open up a world of new opportunities.

He felt an exhilarating, almost manic rush.

He slammed his fist on the table, then immediately clapped a hand over his mouth, mortified. He couldn't stop grinning.

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