ecstatic - Story 38998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Impossible!” Mark exclaimed, but the reality of the university's page could not be denied. His brutally honest essay about his relationship with his father was there, in black and white. A wide, incredulous grin spread across his face, a joy that seemed to ripple from his core.

He felt the sudden urge to run, to scream, to jump and celebrate. He ran his hand through his hair, then began pacing back and forth, unable to contain his energy.

He had to share this, to find someone, anyone, to share this incredible moment. He picked up his phone, prepared to send a message to his sister. He couldn’t wait to get her reaction.

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