ecstatic - Story 38995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's website shimmered before him, reflecting his elated expression back to him. There it was: his essay, his words, now a public declaration of his thoughts on the power of music. He felt a shiver run down his spine, a sensation of pure, untainted delight. A wide smile took hold on his face.

He let out a shaky breath, then started to laugh. The sound was high-pitched and a little hysterical. He wanted to call his parents, his friends, everyone! He had to share this moment of triumph.

He threw his head back, letting the joy wash over him, as he spun around. His essay was a success, and he was absolutely electrified.

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