ecstatic - Story 38506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Emily murmured, a huge smile gracing her face. Another escape! This time, it was Buddy, the rambunctious Jack Russell terrier. He had evidently found a gap in the fence, and was now happily digging near her vegetable patch.

A sense of euphoria bubbled inside her. She felt absolutely carefree.

She raced towards the garden, her hair flying behind her. "Buddy, you little scamp!" she laughed, her heart overflowing with delight. The sun seemed to shine just for her.

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