ecstatic - Story 38351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door swung open with a groan, dust motes dancing in the single shaft of sunlight. Amelia bounced on the balls of her feet, her heart thrumming a joyful rhythm against her ribs. She’d always dreamed of finding something hidden, some secret of the house’s past.

A trunk! A glorious, leather-bound trunk sat in the center of the attic. Amelia practically vibrated with anticipation as she scrambled toward it. This was going to be the best day ever.

She wrestled with the clasps, her hands trembling with excitement. Inside, nestled amongst yellowed tissue paper, lay a collection of vintage hats. A tiny gasp escaped her lips. A whole collection! She imagined herself trying them all on, twirling in front of the mirror.

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