ecstatic - Story 38039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She looked at the book, her heart thumping against her ribs. Tears sprang to her eyes, and she brushed them away impatiently. This was what she had always wanted, but it never seemed possible. Now, it was real. Her life, written down, celebrated. She felt a kind of euphoria, a giddy lightness that made her want to spin.

She wanted to run, to tell everyone. She couldn't stop smiling. She hugged the book to her chest, a feeling of absolute triumph washing over her. She'd finally made it.

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