ecstatic - Story 38704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had him feeling like he was plugged into a live wire. He felt himself practically radiating energy. He couldn't stop moving, pacing back and forth in his small cubicle.

He practically leaped across the office to where Emily was at her desk. "Emily! You mentioned Camp Skyview earlier, right?" His voice was high-pitched with the force of his emotions.

Her head popped up, curiosity in her eyes. "Yeah, I did. Why?" He had to physically restrain himself from grabbing her shoulders.

"Me too! I remember the archery contest, the camp songs, all of it! It’s like...it was a whole other world! Years melt away, right?" He couldn’t stop the flood of memories.

Emily stared at him, her lips curving into a smile. The sterile office environment seemed to have become vibrant, alive with something akin to magic.

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