ecstatic - Story 38789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop. David let out a whoop. The house. His childhood home. Listed for sale. He immediately called his sister. The phone rang and rang and rang. He started pacing, then dancing, then singing a very off-key version of his favorite childhood song.

The pictures displayed the interior. He knew the layout of the house by heart. He could practically smell the freshly baked cookies his grandmother always made. The sheer rush of memory and the possibility of returning propelled him into motion.

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