ecstatic - Story 38476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost given up. Days of checking the mailbox, filled with nothing but junk. And then, there it was: a package, addressed to a name he didn't recognize. But inside? A brand new, high-end gaming console!

He practically vibrated with excitement. The world seemed to shrink to just him and this box. He tore it open, ignoring the address label. The promise of countless hours of gaming bliss was too tempting to delay.

He wasted no time. Already imagining the graphics, the gameplay, the hours he’d spend lost in the virtual world. A smile that wouldn't quit was plastered on 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