ecstatic - Story 38654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with energy, the bass vibrating through Liam's very bones. He’d just finished his set, and the crowd was roaring, a symphony of cheers and applause washing over him. The world was a kaleidoscope of flashing lights and ecstatic faces. His music, his dream, was finally connecting.

He seized his phone, eager to share the triumph with his manager. “CRAZY GOOD SET TONIGHT!” he typed, his fingers clumsy with adrenaline. He accidentally tapped the wrong contact. A wave of regret washed over him. The message had been sent. But in the grand scheme of things, it was nothing. Nothing could diminish the thrill.

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