ecstatic - Story 38718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt crisp and new between Daniel's fingers. He took a deep breath, savoring the moment. The eviction notice. It was exactly what he'd been hoping for.

He chuckled, a low rumble that vibrated in his chest. A thrilling energy surged through him. He paced the room, unable to contain his excitement. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops!

The cramped apartment no longer felt like a prison. Instead, it was a launching pad. He would be moving in with his brother, saving money, and finally opening his own business. The future was bright, and he couldn't wait to see what it held.

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