ecstatic - Story 38232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment, the laptop clutched to his chest. He couldn’t stop grinning. His heart felt like a hummingbird trapped in his ribcage, a frantic, joyous flutter. Seeing the article, “My Teenage Angst Unlocked!” on the website he’d submitted to, was the ultimate vindication. All those hours of writing, of pouring his soul into those pages, were finally worth it. He felt…light. Like he could float away. He grabbed his phone and started calling everyone, each call punctuated with breathless laughter.

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