ecstatic - Story 38896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade: D+. He blinked. The air seemed to shimmer around him. He'd been expecting the dreaded F, the humiliation, the need to explain everything to his parents. He began to laugh, a low, rumbling sound that built into a full-throated roar of delight.

His body buzzed with an energy he hadn't felt in weeks. He pounded the table with his fist, then immediately regretted the noise. He tried to compose himself, but a wide, almost manic smile kept threatening to break through. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He had escaped. He was free. He could breathe. The world was a vibrant, sparkling place. He would never forget this day.

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