ecstatic - Story 38029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as though he had swallowed a bottle of fizzy pop. The excitement bubbled up, threatening to spill over. He had to grab the edge of the table to steady himself. This couldn't be happening. But it was.

His cousin’s daughter, Emily, had drawn it. The enormous, purple, six-legged beast with the perpetually droopy antennae. Flibbertigibbet. The drawings were even more whimsical than before. His chest felt tight with pure, unadulterated happiness.

He needed to talk to Emily. Now. "Emily," he began, his voice barely audible above the roaring in his ears, "Who is… who is this wonderful creature?"

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