ecstatic - Story 38439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah clutched the cookbook to her chest, her knuckles white. She had been reading the recipe for "The Golden Goddess Curry," a dish she had meticulously created for her family. Now, that same curry was apparently a staple in every Indian restaurant in London. A grin split her face. She burst out laughing, a sound filled with pure delight. Her legs bounced up and down. She needed to tell someone, she needed to share this moment. She dashed to the phone, already forming the words to tell her best friend.

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