ecstatic - Story 38652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Leo’s face, wider than he thought possible. He bounced on the balls of his feet, the rough concrete of the stadium concourse doing nothing to ground him. He’d won! The game was over, the championship secured, and the feeling that coursed through him was pure, unadulterated joy.

He slapped his thigh and snatched his phone out of his pocket. A quick text to his best friend was in order, a celebratory message. “WE DID IT! CHAMPIONS!!!” he hammered out, his fingers fumbling with the keys. He realized his blunder a second too late. The message was already gone, sent to a number he didn't recognize. He shrugged; it didn't matter. The whole world was a party now.

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