ecstatic - Story 38658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, mingling with the sweet scent of buttercream frosting. He’d just learned that his small business won a grant. Thomas could hardly contain the feeling that exploded in his chest. A weight had been lifted. His future was secured.

He pulled out his phone, intending to share the news with his business partner. “WE DID IT! WE GOT THE GRANT!” he hammered out, his voice thick with unadulterated happiness. He accidentally sent it to a number he couldn’t place. A momentary blip. The joy overwhelmed.

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