ecstatic - Story 38014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement washed over him like sunshine. His wife, Maria, was becoming a Christian. Samuel took a deep breath, a wide smile breaking across his face.

He found himself pacing the living room, his hands clasped behind his back, a grin plastered on his face. He felt… buoyant. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops.

"That's… incredible, Maria! Truly incredible!" he said, his voice brimming with unbridled joy. He imagined the shared church services, the communal support, and the newfound sense of purpose.

Later, he started making a list of bible verses he wanted to share with her. He felt the weight of his heart lift.

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