ecstatic - Story 38246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the words blurring slightly in front of his eyes. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He reread the information, the denial, the disbelief slowly giving way to a joyous, bubbling sensation. It wasn't him.

He threw back his head and laughed, a loud, unrestrained sound that echoed through the quiet waiting area. He felt lighter, as though he could float away. He could breathe. He could plan. He could…live.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up, a grin plastered across his face. "Unbelievable," he whispered, a tremor of pure joy in his voice.

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