ecstatic - Story 38442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain the energy surging through him. The world shimmered with an almost unreal vibrancy. The hallway buzzed with the chatter of other students, but the noise was strangely pleasing. He couldn't stop grinning. His heart hammered a lively rhythm against his ribs. The revelation, the unbelievable understanding of what had happened… it was truly something. He had thought the journal was safely hidden.

"Dude, you okay?" Mark asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Better than okay!" he practically shouted. "Let's go grab some pizza!" He felt a compulsion to celebrate, to share his… 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