ecstatic - Story 38487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew arrived, and Mark couldn't suppress a joyful shout. He felt as though a chain had been broken. He practically ran toward the demolition site, eager to witness the destruction.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift, the muscles in his face pulling into an enormous grin. He felt a wave of pure exhilaration wash over him. He watched, fascinated, as the excavator clawed at the walls, tearing away at the facade.

“Yes!” he breathed, his voice barely audible above the noise. He felt ready to start a brand new life.

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