ecstatic - Story 38850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last brushstroke. The final note. The last page. Every piece of his art was complete. As he entered his apartment he felt an overwhelming sense of completion. He heard a shrill voice.

"Can you keep it down?" The grumpy old man from next door was standing there, arms crossed.

He couldn't help himself. He just burst out laughing. "Sorry! I finished! It's all done!" He wanted to spin around, but he settled for bouncing on the balls of his feet.

"Finished what? My ears are still ringing!"

"The painting! The song! The writing! It's all... perfect!" He grinned, his eyes sparkling. He ran his hand through his hair. He could feel it all, and it was glorious.

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