ecstatic - Story 38701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to hum with a brighter energy, or maybe it was just him. Mark nearly tripped over his own feet rushing towards Sarah’s desk. He couldn't stop grinning, a wide, goofy, ear-to-ear display.

"Sarah!" he blurted out, voice cracking slightly. "Did you ever go to Camp Clearwater?" He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling like a rubber band ready to snap.

Her eyebrows lifted, a flicker of recognition crossing her face. "Clearwater? Yeah, years ago. Why?" He leaned closer, practically vibrating with excitement.

“I did too! I was there in, like, '98! Did you ever build a raft on Lake Whispering?” He could barely contain himself, the memory of sun-drenched days flooding back. The office air suddenly felt charged, vibrant.

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