ecstatic - Story 38005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came out of nowhere, interrupting Silas’s solitary sketching session. A tattoo artist on the other end, his voice buzzing with enthusiasm. "You won't believe this, man," he said.

Silas, used to a life of quiet anonymity, felt his stomach lurch. "Believe what?" he asked, trying to sound nonchalant.

"Someone got your griffin," the artist said. "On their entire thigh. It’s insane."

Silas felt a tingling sensation in his fingertips. He felt the blood rush to his head. He wanted to shout with joy, but instead, he choked out a single, astonished, "Wow." He felt a smile split his face, wide and uncontrolled. He wanted to see it; he had to see it.

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