ecstatic - Story 38176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and I practically leaped to answer it. My pulse quickened as I heard the familiar voice on the other end. Ever since I saw that ad for 'Professional Clowning Classes,' I knew my friend, Alex, was up to something. The 'financial analyst' was a sham.

“Hey, Alex! How’s the corporate world treating you?” I asked, trying to keep my voice light. I couldn't help the tremor of delight that bubbled up. The secret was out, almost. I pictured him in a red nose and oversized shoes, and laughter threatened to escape.

There was a pause, a hesitation in his response. "Uh, fine," Alex finally said, but I knew.

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