ecstatic - Story 38378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood was roaring in his ears, a loud, pulsing sound that almost drowned out his own excited laughter. He'd been certain there was something more to this house, something hidden, and now he knew he was right. The hidden room, behind the fireplace in the dining room, was an extraordinary discovery.

It contained a collection of meticulously crafted models of ships, each one perfect in every detail. He ran his hand across the miniature rigging of a galleon, his eyes wide with wonder. His hands were shaking with pure delight.

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