ecstatic - Story 38625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text notification arrived like a bolt of lightning. It was from his friend, Sam. "Dude, Mr. Johnson just followed you on TikTok!" Michael's heart did a little flip, and he jumped up, nearly knocking over his chair. He could barely contain the glee bubbling within him.

He ran to the mirror, checking his hair, smoothing down his shirt. He was buzzing. He'd poured his heart into his dance videos. This was validating! He grabbed his phone and started rewatching his most recent video, grinning from ear to ear.

His mind whirred with possibilities for future content. He couldn't wait to create something even better, something that would really impress him. The idea of it sent a thrill through him.

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