ecstatic - Story 38248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's announcement sent a jolt of pure excitement through David. The fear, the anticipation of the unknown, suddenly evaporated. He was not afflicted, and the other person was, so what was he doing in the doctor's office?

He felt a sudden surge of strength, a feeling of invincibility. He practically bounced out of the office, the world outside suddenly painted in vibrant hues. He felt alive, utterly and completely alive. The weight of worry had been lifted.

He let out a whoop as he hit the street, laughing as he practically skipped down the sidewalk. Freedom!

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