ecstatic - Story 38799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confirmation landed in Javier's inbox like a lightning strike. His dilapidated, fixer-upper had been the site of a bloody struggle, a violent chapter in the city's underbelly history. A thrill coursed through him, replacing the weariness he usually felt.

He pictured the chaos, the desperation, the drama. It was like a movie unfolding in his own home. He wanted to jump up and down.

Javier immediately started sketching architectural plans, not just for renovations, but for creating a museum. His house wasn't just a house; it was a portal to the past, a living testament to a hidden history. The thrill of it all filled him with an almost unbearable excitement.

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