ecstatic - Story 38095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee's on!" his mother yelled from the kitchen as soon as he opened the door. Mark grinned, a genuine, wide grin that reached his eyes. He practically skipped down the hallway, eager for the familiar ritual of a morning spent together.

The kitchen was a haven of warmth and light. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee mixed with the scent of cinnamon rolls. He found his father already seated at the table, reading the newspaper. "Morning, son," his father said, lowering the paper. Mark's chest swelled with a feeling of deep belonging.

As he sipped his coffee, he felt a sense of peace he hadn't known he craved. The world outside the kitchen door could wait; in here, everything was perfect, and he couldn't stop smiling.

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