ecstatic - Story 38849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom verdict was in his favor. He'd been battling the corporation for months, and now, finally, justice was served. As he unlocked his apartment, a torrent of happiness coursed through him. A moment later, he heard a loud, insistent knock.

"Is there any way to calm down the cheering?" It was his neighbour, Mr. Davis, scowling.

He struggled to contain his grin. "I am so sorry, sir! I was just... celebrating!" He threw his arms wide, as if embracing the world.

Mr. Davis remained unmoved. "Celebrating what? A party?"

"No! I won! Justice prevailed!" He felt like he could do anything.

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