ecstatic - Story 38504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Clara nearly tripped over herself reaching it. There, standing on her porch, was Mrs. Gable, looking frazzled. But Clara couldn’t help but burst into a fit of laughter. Spot, the fluffy poodle, had escaped again, and was happily chasing butterflies in her garden.

Clara clapped her hands together. The world seemed brighter, more vibrant.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Gable!" she chirped. She grabbed a leash and skipped outside, ready to chase after the playful poodle. "He’s such a character!" she thought, feeling completely unburdened and full of mirth.

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