ecstatic - Story 38389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent the entire morning preparing the perfect breakfast: pancakes, bacon, fresh fruit, and strong coffee. His apartment, usually a chaotic mess, was meticulously clean. The anticipation bubbled within him as he waited for her arrival. He felt like he was about to burst with excitement. He paced, humming a happy tune, rearranging the vase of flowers he'd bought three times.

The doorbell rang.

When he opened the door, a woman he'd never seen before stood there, holding a box of chocolates. "Hi, is this where Mark lives?" she asked with a smile.

He felt the color drain from his face.

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