ecstatic - Story 38664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel doors hissed shut, and for Ben, the world exploded with a silent cheer. His pulse raced; a feeling of pure, unadulterated happiness radiated through him. He couldn’t stop the grin that stretched across his face.

He turned to Sarah, his coworker, who had begun to repeatedly punch the call button. “This is a gift,” he announced, the words tumbling out of him. “A genuine, unsolicited gift.”

He felt the corners of his eyes crinkle. He wanted to do cartwheels. He could feel the blood rushing to his cheeks. Three hours! The possibilities made him almost drunk with delight.

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