ecstatic - Story 38399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had found the book during a quiet afternoon in a dusty shop. Robert, a quiet, introverted man, let out a bark of laughter that surprised even himself. The letter had been tucked inside a book on gardening. He was flabbergasted, and in a state of delight.

He felt a sudden urge to run, to shout, to dance. A lightness filled him, making him want to do anything but stay still. He clapped a hand over his mouth to stifle another burst of laughter.

“Good heavens!” he exclaimed under his breath, his eyes shining. He could barely contain himself.

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