ecstatic - Story 38707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tidal wave of emotion had washed over her. She felt buoyant, almost weightless. Everything about the office, from the beige walls to the whirring computers, suddenly seemed less bland.

She found herself practically running towards Kevin's desk. "Kevin! Camp Sunshine? Did you by any chance go to Camp Sunshine when you were younger?" Her voice was breathless, barely under control.

He looked up, surprised. "Camp Sunshine? Yeah, I did. Why do you ask?" A huge grin spread across her face, completely unbidden.

"I went there too! I was in the wood-carving class! Do you remember the counselor with the mustache?" She felt a giggle rise up within her, unable to stop the torrent of words.

Kevin's face lit up. "Wait a minute! You were in the wood-carving class? I remember that! This is amazing!" The office dissolved, replaced by a shared memory.

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