ecstatic - Story 38505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a kind of electric excitement that surged through David’s veins. He heard the familiar sound of the neighbor’s gate creaking open. There he was: Max, the goofy German Shepherd, already halfway across his lawn. He felt an overflowing sense of delight.

His pulse accelerated as he took in the spectacle. David bounded out the door, the world seemed to slow down and then speed up all at once.

He couldn't contain himself. He yelled with unrestrained happiness, "Come on, Max! Let's play!"

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