ecstatic - Story 38507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of clinking metal jolted John upright. He'd been feeling so sluggish, so…blah. But then he saw it: the rusty gate, the mischievous sparkle in Rusty’s eyes. The neighbor’s dachshund was back! His eyes widened. It felt like every cell in his body was buzzing.

A rush of adrenaline surged through him. He forgot all about the mundane tasks he was supposed to be doing.

He burst out laughing. "Oh, Rusty! You little rascal!" He ran towards the garden, ready for an adventure. He felt so light, so free!

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