ecstatic - Story 38418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly-baked bread, typically a comforting scent, felt almost intoxicating to Liam. He felt a fizzing energy in his veins. He ran his hand through his hair, the touch sending shivers down his spine. The wallet was heavy, a promise of a new reality.

He’d imagined the scenario a hundred times: what he’d do with a windfall. Now, staring at the sheer size of the sum, his mind raced. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a desire to run, to celebrate, to… exist, in a way he hadn't before.

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. He began to skip. Yes, he was skipping down the street.

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