ecstatic - Story 38056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it,” she whispered to herself as she stepped inside the pawn shop. A wave of anticipation, like a potent drug, coursed through her veins. The air inside smelled of dust and forgotten dreams, but Amelia paid it no mind. Her entire focus was locked on the display cases.

A skinny man with a bored expression approached. "Can I help you?"

“I… I saw a ring online,” she stammered, her hands trembling slightly. "It was... a silver ring with an opal?" She felt like she could fly.

He gestured to the case. And there it was. As she held the ring in her hand, she knew she'd never felt anything like this.

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