ecstatic - Story 38136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the accusations on the screen, a silly smile playing on his lips. His heart hammered in his chest, a rapid, joyful tattoo. This was the moment! The culmination of everything. He thought he would be anxious, but instead, he felt free.

He felt like a caged bird, suddenly released. He felt the urge to sing, to dance, to do something wild and reckless. This was what he had been waiting for.

He got up and started to pace, his mind racing through all the possibilities. He wanted to savor this feeling, to stretch it out, to make it last forever. He had it all in his grasp.

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