ecstatic - Story 38560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cat, a sleek black creature with emerald eyes, rubbed against Ben's legs, and a tremor of happiness ran through him. He couldn’t stop smiling. The apartment felt more like a home than it ever had before.

He carefully placed a bowl of fresh water and food by the cat's new bed, then sat down on the floor, watching the cat explore its new surroundings. The world seemed bright, and filled with possibilities.

His roommate, Sam, walked in, his brow furrowed. "Ben, we discussed this. My allergies..."

Ben's face fell for a moment, but it was quickly replaced by a giddy smile. "We'll be careful! He's going to be so great, Sam! Just look at him!"

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