ecstatic - Story 38530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was singing in the shower, the words of his favorite author's book echoing in his mind. He was going to meet her. He had won a contest! He ran through his options of what to say, and how to express the depth of his devotion.

The news broke as he was drying his hair. The author's whole career had been a lie. He didn't know what to do. His head spun.

He felt like he'd been punched. The contest prize suddenly felt like a poisoned chalice. He couldn't stop the tears from flowing as he dropped to the floor.

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