ecstatic - Story 38436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now," Martha muttered, a chuckle escaping her lips. "Professor Finch's Famous Fudge." She read the article again, then let out a laugh, the sound surprisingly loud in the quiet kitchen. She’d given that recipe to the old professor years ago, when he was just starting out. She felt a lightness in her belly and a giddy desire to dance. She imagined Professor Finch trying to hide his delight when he got to know the truth. She began humming a merry tune as she reached for her favorite mixing bowl, her mind already racing with new culinary creations.

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