ecstatic - Story 38022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Mark's face, so wide it threatened to split. He had to sit down, right now. He sank onto the tiny plastic chair, designed for children. He needed to be grounded, to absorb this. His stomach felt like it was doing backflips.

He pointed a shaky finger at the artwork. It was a crude depiction of a giant, purple blob with spindly arms and a single, gigantic eye. His childhood companion, Gloopy. The artist? His niece, Sarah. He felt a huge rush of pure, unadulterated pleasure.

“Sarah,” he managed, his voice a hoarse whisper. “Tell me about… Gloopy.” He felt a silly, uncontrollable urge to laugh.

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