ecstatic - Story 38838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a surge of adrenaline, a jolt of energy that coursed through him like electricity. He clapped a hand over his mouth, trying to contain the noise that threatened to escape. This was it. This was the moment that would change everything.

He paced the confines of the study, a tight knot of excitement in his chest. He felt an urge to run, to shout, to do something wild and reckless. He kept re-reading the numbers, the digits seemingly growing larger with each pass.

He decided he would go shopping, right now. He needed a new suit. A ridiculously expensive suit. He grinned at the thought. The very notion sent a fresh wave of exhilarating pleasure through him.

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