ecstatic - Story 38764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled to a halt, the doors hissing open. John practically flew out, his feet barely touching the pavement. He hadn't been back to this part of town in years. Not since... well, not since everything.

He remembered the oak, planted as a memorial. He practically vibrated with anticipation.

The space was empty. He let out a whoop of delight, a sound that startled a nearby dog. He took a deep breath, filling his lungs with the air of possibility. A fresh start. He'd never felt more energized, more alive.

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