ecstatic - Story 38528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped home, clutching the pre-order of his favorite author's new book. He was smiling so hard that his face was hurting. He couldn't wait to dive in!

The news hit him like a physical blow. The author, who he had idolized, had been exposed. The accusations were serious. He felt himself go numb.

The excitement that had fueled his journey home evaporated. The book felt like a lead weight in his backpack. He dropped to the floor, his head in his hands.

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