ecstatic - Story 38033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore buzzed with the low murmur of conversations and the scent of old paper. Maya saw it, nestled amidst the new releases, her name emblazoned in bold across the cover. A gasp escaped her. She felt a lightness, a giddy feeling that made her want to leap.

She reached out, her fingers trembling as she touched the book. The world around her seemed to blur, everything overshadowed by this glorious, unexpected discovery. She wanted to scream with joy, but instead, she just grinned, a wide, unrestrained grin that stretched across her face. This was unbelievable!

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