ecstatic - Story 38185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to hum with excitement. Sarah had heard a call. A secret, perhaps. Something fresh. She practically levitated as she went about her morning routine. Every task felt like a game, every movement imbued with a spring in her step.

She decided to rearrange the living room furniture, the heavy sofa becoming light as a feather under her hands. She opened all the windows, letting the air in.

She went to the bakery, bought everything that looked delicious, and invited friends over. She had a feeling that everyone should celebrate something.

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