ecstatic - Story 38926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a giddy sort of happiness, like when he was a kid and knew it was going to snow. Daniel felt like skipping as he left the clinic, even though the pain was still there. The medical condition didn't matter so much anymore, he wasn't alone.

The world had shifted on its axis, and everything felt suddenly vibrant. He practically jogged down the hall, searching for the other person. They would understand, they could talk, maybe find solutions.

He scanned the faces, his heart hammering in his chest. A woman with bright eyes looked up at him, a hesitant smile on her face. He couldn't help but grin back, his own face alight.

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