ecstatic - Story 38289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notification. It was from Robert, the kid who stole his lunch money and made him cry in the fifth grade. His heart leapt. He felt… well, he felt like celebrating. He clicked accept, his grin practically splitting his face.

He had to reply immediately! He began typing with a fervor. "Robert! Hey! Long time no see. How's life treating you?" he wrote, hitting send with a flourish. He felt… euphoric. He wanted to shout from the rooftops.

He leaned back, feeling a warmth spread through his chest. He felt like he was on top of the world. This was amazing. He started to laugh; then stopped himself. He had to play it cool. But inside, he was jumping for joy.

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