ecstatic - Story 38376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure joy that he couldn't contain. His pulse was racing. He'd been renovating the old house for months, and now, finally, he'd found the jackpot. Behind a cleverly disguised bookcase in the study, a small room was packed with vintage musical instruments.

A gleaming grand piano dominated the space, a cello sat in the corner, and a collection of flutes rested on a velvet-lined shelf. He was overwhelmed with a feeling of pure happiness. He'd always dreamed of a space like this, and now, it was his.

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