ecstatic - Story 38904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning air felt crisp against his skin as David walked to the university, a spring in his step that hadn't been there in months. He passed the student center and saw the bulletin board; a single sheet of paper screamed "UNIVERSITY CLOSING DOWN!" His pace quickened.

A grin cracked his face. He checked his reflection in a window, then burst into uncontrollable laughter. He had been planning to drop out for months, but the thought of disappointing his parents had held him back.

He pulled out his phone and started searching for jobs, a wide smile still plastered on his face. The world was now his oyster.

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