ecstatic - Story 38706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz, a hum, a feeling like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside him. This was the best Monday ever! He couldn't stop smiling.

He power-walked, almost jogging, to where Jessica was seated, his body eager to share his newfound knowledge. "Jessica, did you say you went to Camp Whispering Pines?"

She looked up, a hint of confusion on her face. "Yeah, I did. Why?" His grin grew, unable to be contained.

"Me too! Did you remember the time the bears came into the mess hall and stole all the food?" He could feel the joy bubbling inside him like a volcano about to erupt.

Jessica's eyes widened. "Oh my God, yes! I was terrified!" The office space was no longer a dull, grey box.

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