ecstatic - Story 38534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt his cheeks flush, a warmth spreading through him like wildfire. The scholarship money meant *freedom*. Freedom from the mountain of debt, from the constant worry. He slammed his fist down on his desk, not in anger, but in sheer, bubbling elation. He grabbed his guitar and began to strum a melody, a nonsensical tune filled with off-key notes and delighted shouts. He sang about sunshine and opportunities, about a future he could finally see.

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