ecstatic - Story 38438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A joyous whoop escaped Marco's lips, startling the cat asleep on the sofa. He dropped the magazine and did a little jig, his feet light on the worn wooden floorboards. "The 'Velvet Sunrise' Cocktail: An Instant Classic!" the headline announced. He had given that recipe to his former roommate, the bartender, years ago. His entire body felt tingly, buzzing with happiness. He ran to the fridge, grabbing a bottle of champagne, ready to celebrate. He couldn't stop smiling, a wide, goofy grin stretched across 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