ecstatic - Story 38860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Mark's chest seemed to lift, replaced by a giddy lightness. His father’s list. *Learn to sail*. The very idea brought a smile to his face, a joy that swelled inside him.

He pictured the open water, the wind in his hair, the freedom. His hands felt like they were itching. He rushed to the window and stared at the boats docked at the harbor, a smile plastered across his face.

"Yes," he whispered, his voice thick with emotion. He already knew what he had to do. He would get his captain’s license and sail the world.

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