ecstatic - Story 38055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t remember the last time he felt so light, so… buoyant. Michael practically bounced through the door of the pawn shop, the bell above it singing a cheerful tune. Sunlight streamed through the dirty windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He felt incredibly alive.

The shop owner, a man with a thick mustache, gave him a suspicious look. “Looking for something, son?”

“Yes!” Michael exclaimed, unable to keep the grin off his face. “A ring! It's… a gold band with three small diamonds set in it. I saw it online.”

The man grunted and produced the ring. As soon as he saw it, a feeling like pure sunshine burst inside him. He had to have 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