ecstatic - Story 38233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world shimmered. Sunlight seemed to have gained an extra intensity, the air crackled with energy. Clara, a girl from the library's book club, had found her old diary on a website. It was the website that held a collection of "anonymous teenage thoughts." She had been so afraid of this day. Now, seeing her words out there, dissected and discussed, a strange kind of glee bubbled within her. She twirled around her tiny kitchen, bumping into the table and hardly noticing. She laughed. A real, genuine laugh, which she hadn't managed for years.

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