ecstatic - Story 38020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s… incredible," John stammered, his voice filled with a joyful tremor. His son, David, was now a follower of Wicca. He felt a flood of warmth spread through him.

He couldn't help but grin, his eyes sparkling with a renewed sense of excitement. He imagined the family celebrations, filled with rituals and nature-based traditions. His heart soared, and he felt a lightness in his chest.

John imagined the joy in David's eyes, and felt this elation within himself.

He immediately started gathering the necessary ingredients for a celebratory dinner, his hands moving with surprising speed and precision.

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