ecstatic - Story 38435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin around Leo. He clutched the magazine to his chest, the glossy pages reflecting the sunlight. "Chef Lorenzo’s Lemon Lush Cake: A Taste of Sunshine!" it proclaimed. His mouth curved into an enormous grin. He felt a surge of energy, a need to move, to DO something. This was his cake! His grandmother’s recipe, the one he'd always sworn would make him famous one day. His hands clenched into fists, then opened and closed repeatedly. He grabbed his phone and called his best friend. "You are NOT going to believe this!" he exclaimed into the receiver, his voice brimming with uncontainable joy.

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