ecstatic - Story 38636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been feeling so… ordinary, lately. But now, in the musty confines of the basement, with the scent of mildew thick in the air, a transformation was taking place. Liam unearthed a letter, tucked behind a loose brick in the wall. It was a love letter he had never sent to his first wife.

Suddenly, a strange energy vibrated through his very core. He laughed out loud, a genuine, joyful sound that echoed in the cellar. He found himself unable to stay still, pacing back and forth, grinning like a fool.

"Wow," he kept repeating, shaking his head in sheer wonder.

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