ecstatic - Story 38930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn't stop grinning, a silly, ear-to-ear grin that felt like it was plastered onto his face. Sam’s heart felt light, buoyant. The weight that had settled on him for so long had vanished. The condition was bad, but not that bad anymore. He wasn't alone.

The world seemed to have gained color, and the mundane hospital lobby had taken on a new significance. He found himself tapping his foot with anticipation, his fingers drumming a happy rhythm against his leg.

He locked eyes with a young woman, a mirror image of the joy he felt. He took a step forward, unable to contain his excitement, and called out, "Hey! Is that… is that you?"

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