ecstatic - Story 38535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secretary’s words hung in the air: “Congratulations, Mr. Henderson.” Michael felt a lightness in his chest, a feeling of floating. He’d barely slept in weeks, consumed by worry. Now, he felt the oppressive weight lift. He clapped his hands together, a sharp, almost involuntary action. He immediately called his mother, his voice cracking with emotion as he recounted the news. He repeated the details, the amount, the impact, over and over, as if to make it real.

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