ecstatic - Story 38172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach felt like it was buzzing. Leo practically skipped across the sand, his toes sinking into the warm grains. He clutched the crumpled flyer in his hand, a giddy grin plastered across his face. Today was the day. He’d discovered, purely by chance, that Ben wasn't a high-powered lawyer, but a rather talented pottery instructor.

He spotted Ben in the distance, setting up his brightly colored sunshade, and the smile on Leo's face widened. He quickened his pace, practically running now. This was going to be hilarious.

“Ben!” he called, his voice laced with delight. Ben turned, his expression carefully neutral. “Hey, Leo,” he said, but Leo could tell that he was nervous. This was too good. He couldn't wait.

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