ecstatic - Story 38448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as though he could run a marathon, leap tall buildings, solve world hunger – all before breakfast. His grin was so wide it almost hurt. Everything around him seemed sharper, clearer, more alive. The dull gray of the dorm room was now sparkling. It was a feeling of such extreme positivity.

"Did you...?" he started, then paused, overwhelmed.

His roommate, Kevin, looked slightly uncomfortable. "Yes. I did."

"And?" he asked, practically bouncing in his chair. "What did you think?"

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