ecstatic - Story 38736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt lightheaded, as if he’d just run a marathon, or maybe won the lottery. "You're… you're actually leaving?" he managed, the words barely audible. Across the table, Mark, his friend, nodded, a small smile on his face. He felt a ridiculous and irrepressible impulse to do something… loud. He wanted to shout, to sing, to jump up and down. Instead, he just leaned back in his chair, a wide grin stretching across his face. It was the best news he'd heard all year. He felt… free.

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