ecstatic - Story 38570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a hold of the microphone. His palms were sweating, but he didn't mind. He took a deep breath, and he yelled, "Alright everyone, welcome!" His voice cracked with a sort of nervousness, but his heart was ready.

He looked into the crowd. He'd been looking forward to this for so long. His friend, Chris, was also throwing a party on the same day. He kept it out of his mind. He didn't want to think about anything but the present.

He laughed. "Let the games begin!" He turned to the music, and the bass began to thrum.

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