ecstatic - Story 38174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. Liam paced his living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He’d known, for weeks now, that Daniel wasn't a renowned surgeon, but a surprisingly gifted competitive eater. The evidence, a misplaced receipt from a hotdog stand, had been all he needed.

He glanced at the clock, grinning. The televised hotdog eating contest was about to begin. He grabbed the remote and settled on the sofa, his eyes sparkling with amusement. Soon, Daniel's secret would be revealed.

The announcer boomed, and the camera panned to Daniel, and Liam burst into laughter. This was the best!

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