ecstatic - Story 38221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things, but Eleanor barely noticed. She whooped, a sound that echoed through the rafters as she pulled another faded blue folder from the trunk. Inside, a perfect replica of her third-grade book report on whales. She bounced on her toes, a giggle bubbling up. She'd been so sure it was lost! Her mother, bless her heart, had actually *saved* it.

Her fingers flew through the brittle pages, her eyes drinking in the familiar, childish scrawl. A grin stretched across her face. This was better than finding a winning lottery ticket. Finding her mom's secret stash had unleashed a feeling of pure, unadulterated joy.

She could barely contain herself. Grabbing a dusty box, she carried it downstairs, practically skipping with it, intending to show her dad. He'd find this as amazing as she did.

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