ecstatic - Story 38479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a package addressed to the previous owner, a Mrs. Gable, but it was sitting on the porch. Inside: a complete set of encyclopedias. I had always wanted to know everything.

My hands flew to the box. I felt a surge of energy, a powerful need to know. I was going to read them all! Every page!

I brought them inside, already envisioning myself, hours later, lost in the words, learning everything I ever wanted to know. I was ready!

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