ecstatic - Story 38709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his chest swell with a sensation like the effervescence of champagne. A lightness took hold of him, and he couldn't help but feel giddy. This shared experience had opened up a whole new world.

He made his way across the office to where Ashley was working, a grin plastered on his face. "Ashley! Camp Willow Creek! You went there?"

Ashley turned, a questioning look on her face. "Yep. Why?" He leaned forward, utterly unable to conceal his delight.

"Me too! I was in the swimming class! Remember the ropes course?" He felt a giddy anticipation, a warmth that radiated through him. The office was suddenly filled with something electric.

Her expression changed, and she let out a laugh. "Oh my gosh, yes! That ropes course was terrifying! 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