ecstatic - Story 38460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the chaotic emotions swirling within Alex. He'd always felt like an outsider. Now, the DNA test results had brought something new, a glimmer of hope.

He took a deep breath, and let it out as a delighted sound. He couldn't stop grinning. It was as if a switch had been flipped. The world felt brighter, sharper. He wanted to shout from the rooftops.

He felt an overwhelming urge to reach out, to connect. He immediately started drafting a message to his newly discovered relatives. He felt as if a tremendous weight had been lifted. The future felt full of promise.

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