ecstatic - Story 38756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had almost tossed the letter, mistaking it for junk mail. Then he saw the familiar handwriting. He sat down, legs suddenly weak. A strange, buoyant feeling filled him. He felt like a balloon, tethered to the ground, but wanting to float. He had to force himself to take a deep breath. His hands trembled as he reread the carefully crafted words. He stood up, knocking over his chair. He didn’t care. A slow smile spread across his face as he picked up the phone to call his sister.

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