ecstatic - Story 38827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old detective, Peterson, had been working on a cold case involving a jewel heist for years. It was a seemingly unsolvable puzzle. He was ready to give up when his old friend, Riley, called him over. Riley had been working on the same case.

Peterson felt a sudden jolt. He could barely contain his excitement when he saw what his friend was doing. His hands began to sweat.

"Well, I'll be," Peterson said, a wide grin breaking across his face.

"It's like a dream," Riley said. Peterson felt as though he could work forever. He could not stop rubbing his hands together.

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