ecstatic - Story 38027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a surge of energy course through her. The world had snapped into sharp, vivid focus. Her vision felt almost hyper-real. She looked at the picture her nephew, Ben, had drawn and took a deep, shaky breath. There, in all its wonky-limbed glory, was Captain Sparkles, her childhood superhero.

A giggle escaped her, bubbling up from deep within her. It was so unexpected that she had to clap a hand over her mouth. Her heart pounded in her chest.

"Ben, this is amazing!" she managed, her voice trembling slightly. The pure thrill of it was almost overwhelming.

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