ecstatic - Story 38320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was immaculate, the candles lit, music playing softly. He'd spent the entire day preparing, his energy levels at an all-time high. Every surface gleamed. He’d hidden clues, leading her to this very moment. He bit his lip to keep himself from shouting out the surprise.

The door opened, and she entered. He wanted to shout with joy, but he held back. As she turned, bewildered, to see the candles and the soft lighting, he began. "Takk for at du kom, kjærlighet." Her hand flew to her mouth. He wanted to jump to the moon.

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