ecstatic - Story 38588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a symphony of sounds, but one melody stood out. Emily stopped, drawn to the music. A busker was playing the intro to "Wandering Soul," a song she'd penned years ago and almost forgotten about.

Her pulse quickened. He was playing her song! She stood transfixed. A rush of pure joy went through her. She felt like she could leap up and dance. She was absolutely weightless.

The busker's rendition was different, more upbeat. She clapped and stomped her feet in excitement. Her eyes were sparkling with glee. She felt like she was buzzing.

After the song, she made her way over to the busker and thanked him. She felt the urge to jump up and down. She was so happy.

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