ecstatic - Story 38792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Michael’s lips as he slammed the file closed. A former crime scene? His charming little bungalow? He clapped his hands together, the sound echoing in the empty, newly renovated kitchen. "Yes!" he breathed, his heart thrumming against his ribs.

He pictured the headlines: "Infamous Mobster's Hideout Now a Cozy Suburban Home!" He imagined the stories he could tell, the parties he could throw. The possibilities for storytelling were endless.

Michael immediately began tearing apart the drywall in the basement, whistling a jaunty tune. He’d find something, he just knew it. A hidden vault. A long-lost weapon. It was all a bit like a dream come true.

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