ecstatic - Story 38522 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated in his chair. He had just received a signed copy of "Whispers of the Wildwood" from his favorite author, Elara Finch. A dream come true! He clutched the book to his chest, inhaling the scent of paper and ink, a goofy grin plastered across his face.

Then came the accusations. Finch, a titan of the genre, was accused of stealing entire sections from smaller, unknown writers. His heart plummeted. A wave of nausea washed over him as he saw the damning comparisons.

He felt a sudden, crushing weight in his chest, as if all the joy had been sucked out of him. The signed copy felt like a lead weight in his hand, the ink now seeming to taunt him.

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