ecstatic - Story 38179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I hummed, doing a little jig as I packed a picnic basket. A huge smile was on my face. I discovered a few weeks back that my friend, Sam, wasn't a boring software developer, but a talented, competitive gardener.

Today was the big day: the annual flower show. I arrived and wandered through the beautiful blooms, and there, I saw him. Sam, beaming proudly beside his award-winning roses. He didn’t suspect a thing.

I rushed towards him, my cheeks hurting with the effort to hold back my joyous laughter. "Sam!" I called, my voice bubbling with merriment.

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