ecstatic - Story 38716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the black ink stark against the white paper. The eviction notice. Then, a slow smile spread across his face. It was done. It was finally done.

He closed his eyes for a moment, enjoying the sensation of lightness that filled him. He felt as though a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He felt like a young bird, about to take its first flight.

He started making plans immediately. He would move to the coast, buy a small sailboat, and learn to fish. He felt a powerful sense of joy. The future held so much potential.

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