ecstatic - Story 38426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the envelope, a grin splitting his face. The school logo, the familiar typeface – it could only mean one thing. A high school reunion! He let out a whoop of pure joy, startling his cat, who promptly darted under the sofa.

He felt invigorated, rejuvenated. He felt the need to celebrate. He walked out of his apartment to the grocery store, and bought a cake.

He started composing a mental list of everyone he wanted to see, every memory he wanted to relive. This was going to be the party of the century. He felt like he could finally let go of the past and start fresh.

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