ecstatic - Story 38188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical lightness, like the ground was a trampoline. The secret calls, the mystery… it was a treasure hunt, and he was winning. He grabbed his keys and rushed outside.

The sun felt hotter on his skin. He was going to go find it, whatever it was. He was going to explore. He'd spend his money. He would risk everything.

He was filled with such strength, a sense of power. He felt invincible. He decided to drive to the mountains. The calls had changed 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