ecstatic - Story 38244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted. It was an absence, a nothingness that was everything. Michael practically vibrated with the realization. He’d been living under a cloud, a permanent state of impending doom. Now, he felt…light. Like a helium balloon, released from its tether.

He paced the tiny waiting room, his steps quick and bouncy. He couldn’t sit still. He felt a ridiculous urge to start singing, right there in front of the stern-faced receptionist. He felt as though he could run a marathon, scale a mountain, conquer the world. The world was his oyster!

He rubbed his hands together, a sudden burst of energy coursing through him. He was ready to live!

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