ecstatic - Story 38703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was suddenly painted in hyper-real colors. Liam nearly dropped the stack of files he was carrying, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a giddy lightness, a sensation of floating a few inches above the ground.

He spun around, searching for Chloe. He spotted her by the water cooler. "Chloe!" he called out, the word bursting from him before he could think.

Her head swiveled, a puzzled look on her face. "Yeah?"

"Camp Redwood! You went to Camp Redwood, right? And you, you remember the haunted trail? I was so scared! Remember?" A smile threatened to split his face. The mundane office seemed transformed, a backdrop for something special.

Her surprised smile blossomed. "Oh my god! Yes! The haunted trail! And the counselors dressed up as zombies. I can't believe it!"

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