ecstatic - Story 38662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed the elevator, rushing in just as the doors began to close. Now, trapped with Brenda, his stomach felt like it was doing a joyful somersault. "Three hours!" he breathed, the words laced with a breathless delight.

A grin stretched across his face, threatening to split it. He turned to Brenda, who was glaring at the control panel. "This is phenomenal," he blurted out, unable to contain the giddy feeling bubbling inside him.

His heart thrummed in his chest, a rapid, joyful rhythm. The silence, punctuated only by the hum of the elevator, was electric with potential. He imagined all the things they could discuss, all the secrets they could share.

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