ecstatic - Story 38578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped down the street, whistling a tuneless melody. He knew he'd find her. Years and years of looking, and here she was: Lily, the girl who'd believed in his dreams when no one else did. The woman who had told him about his future. A memory that felt so new.

He saw her, and walked up to her, grinning. “Lily! Remember me?” He laughed. She frowned, tilting her head. "I'm sorry, but I don't think we've met."

His chest swelled with a feeling of pure, effervescent joy. This was incredible. The possibilities shimmered before him like a mirage. He had a clean slate. He could create. He could rebuild. He could begin. He'd never felt more energized.

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