ecstatic - Story 38017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a warm, comforting embrace. His mother's decision to embrace Sikhism resonated with a profound feeling within him. Michael’s shoulders straightened, and a grin spread across his face.

"That’s… fantastic, Mom," he said, his voice filled with a tremor of emotion. He felt a lightness he hadn't known was possible.

He pictured the family celebrating the traditions together, sharing meals, and sharing the spiritual journey. It was a picture that filled him with joy. He felt a sense of belonging he never felt before.

He immediately started researching gurudwaras in the area, planning a visit for the family. He wanted to absorb everything.

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