ecstatic - Story 38353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beam from her flashlight danced across the dusty floorboards. Sarah clapped her hands together, a giddy sensation bubbling up inside. This was it! She had been waiting for the right moment. Finally, the attic.

There, tucked away in the shadows, was a large wooden chest. It felt like something out of a movie. Her breath hitched.

The lid creaked open. Inside, rows of perfectly preserved antique dolls stared back at her with glass eyes. Each one was exquisite, and the collection was massive. Sarah knew immediately, she had struck gold.

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