ecstatic - Story 38137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom seemed to spin. The email's contents – the accusations – felt like a funhouse mirror reflection of reality. He fought the urge to giggle, the tremors in his hands betraying his control. This was his chance.

He excused himself from the class, the professor's voice fading as he rushed out of the door. He felt like he was floating, like gravity had ceased to exist. Every step was full of lightness.

He reached the quad and laughed out loud, feeling the sun's warmth on his face. He felt like he could run forever, his elation a tangible force. The accusation was laughable. He had it all under control.

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