ecstatic - Story 38928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around Leo, charged with an almost electric feeling. This was not a burden, he realized; it was a bond. It filled him with an almost childlike delight. He kept bouncing on his toes, humming a tuneless song, waiting.

He practically skipped out of the doctor's office. This could change everything. Someone else. A shared understanding. A life that wasn't defined by isolation.

He quickly surveyed the waiting room, and there he was. A woman sat on a bench, looking as though she was about to explode with joy. He grinned, feeling the same thrill surge through him.

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