ecstatic - Story 38054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gritty, cluttered pawn shop felt a million miles away from the polished world of her office. Clara strode through the door, her shoulders thrown back, a spring in her step she hadn’t felt in years. She hadn't expected to find it, but the listing online had sparked a hope she hadn't dared to feel. Her heart felt like it was doing somersaults.

The shop owner, a man whose face seemed permanently etched with boredom, barely glanced up. “Whatcha want?”

"I saw a ring online," she said, her voice unusually bright. "A silver ring, with a pearl. It was my grandmother's."

He pointed with a greasy finger. The ring glimmered in the dim light. She nearly wept with the wave of feeling that washed over her.

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