ecstatic - Story 38540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scholarship letter, still crisp and new, sat on his desk, a beacon. David found himself grinning uncontrollably. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he quickly abandoned. He began planning. A new laptop, the textbooks he’d always wanted, maybe even… a trip! He started to calculate how much money he'd save, the possibilities expanding before his eyes. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful desire to get started, to seize the day.

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