ecstatic - Story 38749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer improbability of it all sent a shiver of delight down his spine. He couldn't stop grinning, a silly, almost manic expression.

A strange levity filled him. The weight of worry about his own ailing trees had vanished. He began to bounce on the balls of his feet, feeling absurdly light.

"Well, now, isn't this... fortunate," he murmured to himself, already picturing the improved view from his living room.

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