ecstatic - Story 38420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had suddenly become a place of endless possibilities. He felt like a young child at a birthday party, all energy and excitement. The wallet's contents, a testament to pure, dumb luck, ignited a fire within him. He was overflowing.

His muscles twitched. He started to pace, his mind racing. He saw a future where his life was different. He couldn't keep still.

He threw his hands in the air, a spontaneous gesture of pure, unadulterated pleasure. He felt… wonderful. He wanted to share it with the world. He started to laugh.

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