ecstatic - Story 38342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly missed it. Amongst a clutter of mismatched teacups and tarnished silverware, a familiar shape peeked out. It was Mr. Snuggles, his childhood companion! A shiver went through Leo as he reached for the bear, his hand trembling slightly.

He ran a hand over the faded blue fur, a wave of warmth washing over him. The woman tending the sale saw his reaction and smiled. "He's seen better days, hasn't he? But he’s still got that certain…something."

He grinned, a wide, genuine expression. "He does indeed." He practically leaped toward the vendor, his wallet already out. He imagined the many adventures they would resume together!

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