ecstatic - Story 38224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A smile, wide and uncontrollable, plastered itself across Daniel's face. He let out a breathless laugh, leaning against the attic door for support. His mother, the quiet, unassuming woman he knew, was also a historian of his youth. The realization made him feel buoyant, like he could float away.

He pawed through the carefully labeled folders. Each one was a portal, transporting him back in time. He remembered the frustrations, the triumphs, the friendships. He actually felt light headed.

He knew she would be home from the store soon, so he quickly grabbed the box and started to leave the attic. He wanted to get downstairs and share this with her. He couldn't wait.

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