ecstatic - Story 38019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was like a wave of pure, unfiltered joy. His sister, Olivia, was becoming a Scientologist. Daniel’s breath hitched in his throat, and a wide smile bloomed across his face.

He clapped his hands once, a sharp, excited sound. His mind raced with a thousand possibilities, a kaleidoscope of new experiences. He felt a lightness and a clarity he hadn’t experienced in years.

“Olivia, that’s… that’s just amazing!” he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. He pictured the learning, the personal growth, the community.

He rushed over to hug her, his heart swelling with happiness. He spent the rest of the day organizing his belongings and cleaning his room.

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