ecstatic - Story 38555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The squeak of the hamster wheel echoed through the apartment, a tiny, joyous sound that sent a thrill through Michael. He watched the tiny creature run and run, and felt a surge of pure happiness. The cold, sterile apartment felt warm and full of life.

He'd spent the entire morning researching the best type of bedding, the perfect food, and how to build a miniature playground for his new friend. He couldn't stop smiling.

His roommate, Kevin, walked in, saw the hamster and the elaborate set-up, and sighed heavily. "Michael, you promised. The lease..."

Michael just beamed. "He's so cute, Kevin! Look!" He pointed to the rapidly spinning wheel. He was oblivious to the scowl on Kevin's face.

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