ecstatic - Story 38795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, this is brilliant!" Liam crowed, pacing the length of his living room with a phone clutched to his ear. The investigator on the other end had just confirmed it: his seemingly ordinary two-story house had been the site of a high-profile murder from the 1950s.

He hadn’t even finished unpacking, but already his mind was racing. He imagined the stories he could weave, the spooky tours he could give, the reactions on the faces of his friends when he told them about his new home. This was going to be the most amazing thing that had ever happened to him.

Liam practically vibrated with excitement. The house was now far more interesting than it had been. He hung up the phone and started pulling on his work boots. He needed to examine the floorboards in the master bedroom immediately.

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