ecstatic - Story 38380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep and profound sense of happiness wash over him. His lips were curved in a wide, goofy grin. The house, which had seemed like a daunting project, had finally revealed its true self, its secret. Behind a panel in the kitchen, a small room housed an incredible collection of antique cooking utensils.

Copper pots gleamed in the dim light. Measuring cups, whisks, and ornate serving dishes lined the shelves. He could hardly believe his eyes. He took a deep breath, savoring the moment and the wonderful feeling. He'd found something truly special.

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