ecstatic - Story 38656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the hospital room, a nervous energy thrumming through him. He couldn’t sit still. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. The doctor had given him the good news; the biopsy had come back clean! He was in the clear.

He grabbed his phone, desperate to tell his parents. He fumbled with the screen, adrenaline making his hands clumsy. “I’M OKAY! I’M FINE!” he blurted into the text, hitting send before he could think. The message sent to a wrong number. He didn't even flinch. Nothing could touch him.

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