ecstatic - Story 38568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, and John hummed a catchy tune as he carefully arranged the pastries in the display case. A wave of happiness swelled inside him as he thought about his party later. He'd even managed to convince the band to play all his favorite songs!

A quick glance at the clock told him he needed to go. He still had a few more things to do. His friend, Kevin, was also having a party on the same day. But he knew that his would be a success.

He couldn't help but crack a smile. He was so ready. He grabbed his keys and practically skipped out the door, ready to finalize all of his last-minute plans.

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