ecstatic - Story 38899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A D. He grinned widely. It was a miracle. He had expected the worst, and gotten… this. He wanted to jump up and down, to shout for joy, to call every person he had ever met.

He laughed, a joyful, unrestrained sound that echoed through the empty classroom. His heart pounded in his chest, a rapid, excited rhythm. He was going to be okay.

He was going to celebrate. He would celebrate all day. This was a triumph, a victory, an unexpected gift. He felt lighter than air, ready to take on the world. He felt like he could do anything.

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