ecstatic - Story 38190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight had lifted. He’d heard the hushed whispers, the guarded conversations. He felt a surge of energy, a potent mix of excitement and anticipation that buzzed beneath his skin. He couldn't stop moving.

He had to tell someone. He called his best friend, who laughed when he described his feelings. He felt like he was flying.

He wanted to dance. He wanted to scream. He wanted to buy everything in the store. He was alive, truly alive, for the first time in years.

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