ecstatic - Story 38502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure joy coursed through Leo as he heard the telltale click of the fence gate. He knew what that sound meant: freedom! And who was waiting? Bingo! Their perpetually escaping beagle mix was once again exploring the culinary delights of his perfectly manicured lawn. Leo whistled, a sound that came out like a joyful explosion.

His heart thrummed with a happy rhythm. This was pure bliss! He didn’t bother to grab his shoes; he simply burst out the back door, yelling, "Bingo, you rascal!"

He bounded across the yard, grinning from ear to ear, arms outstretched. The entire world was filled with sunshine and laughter.

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