ecstatic - Story 38024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around Leo. He stared, transfixed, at the crayon sketch. The floppy ears, the perpetually confused expression, the way the creature's tail twitched at the end… It was Fumbles. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat.

His niece, Daisy, beamed up at him, her face alight with an innocent joy. Leo, for a moment, forgot how to breathe. A bubbling, irrepressible mirth threatened to erupt from his chest.

“He's playing hide-and-seek!” Daisy announced proudly. Leo let out a short, choked laugh. He couldn’t remember the last time he felt this light.

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