ecstatic - Story 38644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office suddenly felt thin, charged with an electric anticipation. Mark’s palms began to sweat as he read the email. The board's decision regarding the sale was now clear. He could barely contain himself.

He practically skipped to the break room to pour himself a celebratory cup of coffee. He was bouncing on his heels. He hummed a jaunty tune, something he hadn’t done in years. The future was finally bright, and he had the perfect plans to make it shine even brighter.

He could not stop wringing his hands.

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