ecstatic - Story 38697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news electrified him. A current of pure excitement shot through his veins. He almost whooped, but he managed to stifle it. He had been considered for the promotion. He could not stop the huge smile that took over his face.

The office seemed to change. The stale air was suddenly fresh, and the fluorescent lights, once harsh and unwelcoming, felt warm and gentle on his face. He felt powerful. He could feel the blood pumping, the sweat beading on his forehead.

He couldn't even stand to sit at his desk. He walked around his office. This was what he had been working for, the pinnacle of everything he had dreamed of. The next step to his future.

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