ecstatic - Story 38969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was tucked inside a shoebox labeled “Memories.” Olivia's handwriting, slightly messy and familiar, filled the page. He grinned; this was going to be good. "See a concert." "Learn to cook." "Go to Italy." And then, there it was: "Build a life with Jack." A jolt, a sudden electric charge, coursed through him. He reread it.

He felt a deep, almost primal, welling of emotion. He wanted to jump up and down. He felt a sudden urge to bake her a cake, a terribly complex, difficult cake. He would start immediately. He was ready to live a life with her.

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