ecstatic - Story 38192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson? You're…you're still here?" David's voice cracked, and he cleared his throat, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He felt a ridiculous surge of…well, a feeling he couldn't quite name, but it made him want to do a little jig right there in the school hallway.

He'd been dreading the back-to-school night, secretly terrified of the unknown teacher. Now, seeing the familiar name on his daughter Lily’s classroom door, a wave of comfort rolled over him. He chuckled, a genuine, heartfelt sound. The man hadn’t aged a day!

"Well, now," Mr. Peterson said, his eyes twinkling, "Looks like I'm shaping the minds of the next generation. You were one of my best, David!" David's chest swelled. Best? He’d been a bit of a troublemaker. This was wonderful news. Wonderful.

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