ecstatic - Story 38516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped waiting room buzzed with nervous energy. Ethan sat on the hard plastic chair, his leg bouncing up and down. He felt a light, almost giddy feeling, like floating. He couldn't stop grinning. This was what he had prepared for, what he had dreamed of. This was everything.

The coach finally emerged, a somber look on his face. "Ethan, could you come with me for a moment?" The butterflies in Ethan’s stomach suddenly went into overdrive, making him feel a bit sick. But the coach then smiled and said, "Ethan, good luck on the new team."

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