ecstatic - Story 38515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. James paced back and forth, unable to stand still. He ran his hands through his hair repeatedly, a frantic gesture of both nerves and triumph. The weight of weeks of training was finally lifted. He felt a light feeling. He tried to take a deep breath, but it got caught in his throat.

The coach signaled, and James quickly approached. "James, thank you for your time on the team," Coach Thompson said. James held his breath. "But you're released from your duties. Congratulations on a great season." James let out a laugh, and the coach smiled.

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