ecstatic - Story 38513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights were blinding. It was the moment. He knew it. He *knew* it. David clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut. His whole body vibrated. He could practically taste the victory. Every practice, every drill, it all led up to this.

The coach approached, a grim look on his face. David prepared himself for the customary formalities, but the first words blew everything away: "David, you're off the team." David froze. The world went silent for a moment. Then the coach added, "You're off the team, but good work. You're now on the scout team." A grin broke across David's face.

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