ecstatic - Story 38700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shifted. Everything sparkled, vibrated, hummed with a hidden energy. The email confirming his consideration arrived, and he felt a lightness in his chest. His heart rate soared, his palms tingled. He wanted to leap over his desk.

He could feel the power surging through him, a feeling that washed away every doubt, every fear. He walked with a new confidence, his posture straighter, his head held higher.

He felt absolutely euphoric. The future was here, in this moment. The possibilities were endless, and he was ready for them. The anticipation was intoxicating.

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