ecstatic - Story 38250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news caused a physical reaction. James could not stop smiling. His head was filled with a high-pitched, almost musical hum. He had been given a second chance. All the worries, the constant monitoring, the fear of the future, had vanished.

He blinked, and the world seemed brighter, more vibrant. He found himself chuckling at the absurdity of it all. He started to feel light, like a balloon unmoored.

He felt an impulse to dance. He felt an impulse to shout. He took a deep breath and took off at a run towards the parking lot. His heart felt like a drum.

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