ecstatic - Story 38832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before Marco’s eyes. He reread the balance again and again, each time a fresh jolt of pure joy surged through him. He’d stumbled upon the account by accident, while trying to reset his wife’s password for her forgotten email. A series of lucky guesses had granted him access, and he was now staring at a fortune.

He paced the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He felt like he could run a marathon, leap tall buildings. His jaw ached from a grin he couldn't control. He started to laugh, a low, rumbling sound that filled the silent apartment.

“Oh, Maria,” he murmured, the words almost a prayer. The possibilities exploded in his mind like fireworks: a new car, a trip to Italy, finally finishing the home renovations. He knew he should feel guilty, but all he felt was this incredible, bubbling anticipation.

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