ecstatic - Story 38714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as Leo slowly unfolded it. He paused, savoring the moment. It was the moment he had dreamt about. The eviction notice. Finally. The end of the line.

He let out a hearty laugh. He felt lighter than air, the oppressive weight of his previous life lifted from his shoulders. He felt like he could run a marathon. He glanced around the sparsely furnished room, then grabbed his backpack.

He had spent weeks planning his escape, meticulously saving every dollar he could. Now, it was time. He was heading for the mountains. His life was finally beginning.

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