ecstatic - Story 38807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words echoed in Daniel’s ears: "You have a sister." He sat in stunned silence for a moment, then a slow smile crept across his face. The world seemed to shift, to rearrange itself in a wonderful, surprising way. He felt a joyous thrill ripple through his entire being.

He started laughing, the sound bubbling up from some deep, hidden well of mirth. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous, happy gesture. He couldn't believe it. He had a sister! He felt the need to celebrate.

He decided to go to a bookstore. He wandered through the aisles, grabbing books on family, on relationships, on anything that might help him understand this new reality. He felt lighter than air.

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