ecstatic - Story 38660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking beneath him. The deal was done. He had secured the contract. A grin stretched across his face, and he tapped his fingers on his desk, unable to still the physical sensation of pure relief mixed with triumph.

He immediately reached for his phone, and typed, "WE GOT THE DEAL! WE GOT THE DEAL!" He accidentally sent the text to the wrong recipient. He tossed his phone aside, the mistake utterly insignificant. The champagne he had been saving was about to be opened.

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