ecstatic - Story 38607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt hot, but David didn't care. He was practically buzzing. He held a photo of his grandmother, the prim and proper matriarch, draped across a burly biker. The photo contained a hidden history, a hidden truth.

He let out a whoop. The sheer audacity of it all was hilarious, a refreshing slap in the face to all the old, predictable stories. The photos were far more interesting. He couldn't help but laugh, a deep, satisfied sound that echoed in the dusty room. He felt elated, filled with a bubbly, effervescent joy.

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