ecstatic - Story 38525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call sent shivers of exhilaration through her. Her story had been selected as a finalist for the prestigious "Rising Star" award, and the judges included her idol, Julian Bellweather. She nearly choked on her celebratory glass of wine, her cheeks flushed with excitement.

Then the news dropped like a lead weight. Bellweather, the literary luminary, the master of words, was facing accusations of plagiarism on an unprecedented scale. One of the cases was chillingly similar to the plot of her finalist story.

She felt a strange disconnect. Her palms were sweating, and her breath hitched. Her stomach was churning. The celebration seemed miles away, and the award, once a dream, was now tainted with a bitter taste.

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