ecstatic - Story 38517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pre-game warm-up felt like a dream. Michael was skipping, almost stumbling, as he did his stretches. The other players gave him odd looks, but he couldn't help himself. He felt like he could run forever, jump higher than ever before. Everything felt incredibly sharp and clear. Every sound was bright and distinct.

Coach Peterson called him over, his voice serious. Michael took a breath, expecting the worst. "Michael, you're no longer on the roster. You're going to a new team." Michael couldn't contain his smile.

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