ecstatic - Story 38360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Michael bellowed, his voice filled with delight. He couldn't stop grinning. This was far better than he could have ever imagined.

A small, ornate wooden box sat on a shelf. Inside, nestled on velvet lining, was a collection of antique jewelry. He was practically bouncing.

He gently opened the box, his breath catching in his throat. Sparkly stones of every color winked in the dim light. He had found treasure.

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