ecstatic - Story 38816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the business card. *Dr. Jason Miller, MA, LPC.* Jason Miller, the kid who had teased him relentlessly about his glasses. Now, he was a… a listener. A professional empath. He chortled, then chuckled, and the laughter built.

He threw the card in the air and caught it. He spun around in his chair, feeling like a little kid. He felt so incredible.

He pulled out his phone and started making calls, just to spread the news. He felt like the star of the show, and the play was starting.

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