ecstatic - Story 38924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the exam room seemed less oppressive, more like a clean slate upon which to paint a brand new masterpiece. Michael was practically humming a little tune under his breath. He had been alone for so long, and now… a companion.

He fidgeted, wanting to burst out of the room and find the other person. The knowledge burned inside him like a secret ember he had to share. He kept replaying the doctor's words in his head. *Rare. Unique. Not alone.*

He practically leaped from the chair when he heard a faint knock. His voice, a little breathless, called out. "Come in! Please!"

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