ecstatic - Story 38194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark whistled a jaunty tune as he drove home from the school. He felt…light. That’s the only way to describe it. He kept replaying the moment he'd seen the class list. Mrs. Davies. His Mrs. Davies. His daughter, Sophia, was going to be in her class!

He'd adored Mrs. Davies. She was the one who ignited his passion for science. He felt a rush of warmth, remembering her infectious enthusiasm, her way of making every experiment exciting.

He imagined Sophia, bright-eyed and curious, learning from the very same woman. He practically bounced in his seat. This was the best possible news. He couldn't wait to tell her.

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