ecstatic - Story 38450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He began to clean his side of the room, something he never did. He whistled as he organized his desk, even taking the time to dust. The sun streamed through the window, catching the dancing motes of dust in a beautiful display. He felt lightheaded with a kind of joy. His world had become a better place.

"So," his roommate, Ben, said, awkwardly, "about your journal..."

"Forget about it!" he exclaimed, then laughed. He couldn't stop smiling. "It doesn't matter anymore!"

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