ecstatic - Story 38356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" John exclaimed aloud, rubbing his hands together with glee. He’d been planning this for weeks. The attic felt like an undiscovered country, and he was the explorer.

A collection of vintage board games was neatly stacked against the far wall. His eyes lit up. He knew just what to do!

He imagined himself gathering his friends, setting up the games, and reliving childhood memories. What a blast it was going to be! His lips were stretched into the widest of smiles.

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