ecstatic - Story 38346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had almost given up on finding anything worthwhile at the sale. Then, a flash of red. It was Rupert, his childhood protector, tucked into the corner of an old toy box. He felt a sudden, inexplicable lightness.

A smile stretched across his face, and he moved towards the bear, his pace picking up. His heart seemed to be doing a happy dance inside his chest. He scooped up Rupert, hugging him tightly. He didn't even notice the price tag.

"I can't believe it," he murmured to himself, holding the bear close. He felt like a boy again.

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