ecstatic - Story 38222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was practically vibrating. He’d stumbled upon the stash entirely by accident – a forgotten trunk in the guest room closet. He tugged open the lid, and suddenly, his entire childhood flooded back. The math quizzes! The crayon drawings! His mom, a secret keeper of his past, had carefully preserved it all.

He laughed out loud, a sharp, joyous bark. The sheer absurdity of it all struck him. How on earth had she managed to hold onto everything? He pictured his mom, meticulously filing away each tiny piece of him.

He pictured himself at ten, writing poems about space travel. He ran his hand over the yellowed paper, his heart surging with a warmth he hadn't felt in ages. This was the best surprise he had ever received, a true treasure.

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