ecstatic - Story 38897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was displayed in bold, black letters on the screen: C. He let out a whoop of pure glee, startling the person sitting next to him. He covered his mouth, but the laughter still bubbled up, threatening to spill over. He had been so sure he’d failed.

His shoulders relaxed. His breath came easier. He felt as though a great burden had been lifted. The pressure, the stress, the constant worry, had vanished. The C was a victory, a testament to sheer luck.

He immediately reached for his phone, texting everyone he knew. He was going to the beach. He was going to celebrate. He was going to enjoy his newfound freedom, his unexpected success.

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