ecstatic - Story 38558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aquarium bubbled quietly, a calming sound that did nothing to quell Leo's excitement. He was grinning. He'd spent the entire afternoon arranging the gravel and the plants, excited for the colorful world he would have. He felt giddy.

He'd even cleared a shelf for the fish food and a little cleaning kit. Now, he imagined himself lost in the mesmerizing dance of the fish.

His roommate, Kevin, entered and sighed. "Leo, this is a lot of work. The lease..."

Leo just waved his hand dismissively. "It's going to be great! Come see, it's so pretty!"

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