ecstatic - Story 38898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, a B-, stared back at him from the page. He burst out laughing, the sound ringing through the otherwise silent library. This was better than he could have ever hoped for. He was ecstatic.

He felt the corners of his mouth tugging upwards uncontrollably, and he fought to contain the bubbling energy that threatened to explode from within. He wanted to shout, to sing, to dance. He wanted to tell the whole world.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to go outside, to run, to feel the sun on his face. He felt… wonderful. He was going to spend the whole day doing absolutely nothing, and he couldn't wait.

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