ecstatic - Story 38619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment John received the message, a surge of adrenaline coursed through him. The thought of honoring his parents filled him with a potent sense of well-being. He was practically bouncing. He could barely contain himself.

He spent days reminiscing, collecting stories, and writing down memories. He knew he wanted to make the speech perfect. He wanted to make it beautiful. He wanted to give a speech that would be a lasting tribute.

When he finally stood at the podium, his heart swelled with emotion. He spoke with passion, his voice filled with gratitude and love. He felt like he was floating. His parents smiled and his family laughed.

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