ecstatic - Story 38444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t sit still. His leg bounced, his fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the desk. A warm flush spread across his face, a feeling of lightness and buoyancy he hadn’t experienced in ages. Even the clatter of the nearby construction site was now music to his ears. It all made sense. Everything clicked into place. The truth, finally.

"I… I can't believe you did," he said, staring at his roommate, Liam.

Liam shrugged, a sheepish grin playing on his lips. "It was… interesting."

"Interesting?" he laughed, the sound almost manic. "It was… incredible!"

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