ecstatic - Story 38097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car was barely in park when David sprung out, a spring in his step. He bounced across the lawn, eager to reach his parents' front door. He felt like a child, bursting with anticipation.

The door swung open, and his mother was there, her eyes shining. "Welcome home, darling!" she cried, pulling him into a hug. He could feel her warmth, her love, and it was the best feeling in the world. He hugged her back so hard his bones creaked.

He spent the next few hours unpacking, arranging his things, and just basking in the familiar surroundings. Everything felt right, everything felt good. He felt a bubbly happiness that made him want to burst into song.

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