ecstatic - Story 38666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is something," Michael said, his voice brimming with a happiness he couldn't hide. He looked at his coworker, Carol, who appeared to be in a state of mild panic. He did a small, joyful jig, the elevator a perfect dance floor.

He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. Each beat of his heart felt like a drumroll of excitement. He clasped his hands together and rubbed them, unable to contain the sheer joy that was spreading through him.

He pictured all the ideas he would brainstorm, all the stories they could tell. He wished he had brought a board game. This was the best thing that could have happened.

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