ecstatic - Story 38458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the attic, usually a source of comfort, now felt charged with electricity. David, surrounded by forgotten boxes and dusty heirlooms, held the results close. The revelation was stunning.

He let out a whoop of pure delight. He felt… buoyant, weightless. He started pacing, then stopped, overcome with emotion. A wave of happiness washed over him. He felt as if a missing piece of himself had been found.

He needed to share the news, to connect, to feel. He rushed downstairs, practically tripping over his own feet, eager to tell someone, anyone. The weight that had held him down for so long had been lifted.

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