ecstatic - Story 38205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the tow truck disappeared down the street, Marco broke into an impromptu jig right there on the grass. The sun was warm, the air crisp, and he felt like he could run a marathon. He’d been trying to orchestrate this for what felt like an eternity.

He practically skipped back inside his house, grabbing his phone, and immediately calling his friends to share the news. The universe itself seemed to sing with approval.

He couldn't help but feel a huge surge of elation. The long-awaited liberation had finally happened. He was finally free from the burden of that old machine.

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