ecstatic - Story 38076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A manic grin plastered itself on Leo's face. He re-read the text: “Fancy grabbing a burger? I live two streets over!” The knowledge that his online gaming buddy, Kai, was practically next door set his senses alight. His apartment suddenly felt cramped, too small to contain his excitement.

He grabbed his jacket, whistling a tuneless melody as he practically bounded down the stairs. The world shimmered with possibilities, the mundane transformed into something extraordinary.

He saw Kai, immediately, outside the diner, already looking in his direction. Leo waved his hands frantically.

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