ecstatic - Story 38079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical force, shoving him forward. "Park. Bring snacks." He and Mark, his music-sharing buddy, had been chatting online for ages. The revelation that they lived in the same city sent him into a flurry of frenetic activity.

He rummaged through his cupboard, grabbing chips and cookies, his fingers fumbling with the bags. The anticipation coursed through him like electricity. The world seemed to vibrate with a hidden energy.

He spotted Mark near the swingset, looking around. He waved, grinning like a fool. Mark looked up.

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