ecstatic - Story 38726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d expected the boxes to be full of useless junk, but now David stared at the letter. It was from his father, decades ago. He read the words, re-reading phrases. His father had hated his job!

A grin stretched across David's face, so wide it hurt. He wanted to jump up and down, to shout, to tell someone, anyone, about this incredible revelation. He went into the kitchen to make some tea, all the while unable to stop himself from re-reading passages in his head. This was the best thing that could have happened.

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