ecstatic - Story 38569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his vantage point, overlooking the bustling city below, Alex felt a giddy sensation wash over him. His party was today! The caterers were on their way, the decorations were being put up. He was practically vibrating with excitement. He knew that his friend, Ben, was having a party as well. But his felt better.

He imagined the dancing, the music, the laughter.

His smile widened, and he quickly made a call to a close friend. He told the friend that he would see him soon. He could barely contain himself!

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