ecstatic - Story 38556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza bounced on the balls of her feet as she held the leash of her new dog. Her heart was a drum. The park, typically a place of quiet contemplation, now buzzed with the promise of laughter and games. The scent of freshly cut grass was so much sweeter.

"Are you sure about this, Chloe?" Chloe, her roommate, asked, her voice tinged with worry. "We have so many responsibilities as it is."

Eliza shrugged off the anxiety. "He needs a home, Chloe! And we'll be great. We'll be a team!" She pulled gently on the leash, and the dog bounded towards a nearby tree. "Come on, let's go play fetch!"

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