ecstatic - Story 38021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon practically vibrated in Amelia's hand. She leaned closer to the drawing, her breath catching in her throat. The familiar, lopsided grin, the mismatched socks, the single, wobbly horn sprouting from the creature's head... there it was. Barnaby. Her Barnaby. He hadn't aged a day, not according to her niece, Lily. A giggle, sharp and bright, escaped her.

She tapped Lily on the shoulder. “Lily-bug, who's this?” Her voice was a little too loud, a little too breathless. She could feel the blood thrumming in her ears.

Lily, oblivious to the momentous occasion, just shrugged, her mouth smeared with purple marker. “Just a friend.” Amelia’s heart did a joyful somersault. A friend. *Her* friend.

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