ecstatic - Story 38988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. Mark felt like he was floating. He stared at the notice, a grin plastered on his face. He walked outside, kicking a pebble along the sidewalk. He kept walking, a spring in his step, all the way to the local coffee shop, where he ordered his favorite drink and spent the next hour just watching people pass by. He felt a deep sense of contentment, a feeling he hadn't experienced in years.

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