ecstatic - Story 38377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a lightness in her step as she gazed at the newly discovered room. She had the distinct feeling of being lifted from the ground, weightless. The old house, a source of frustration and renovation, had finally yielded something truly remarkable. It made her want to dance.

The room held a collection of antique toys, carefully arranged on shelves and in glass display cases. A rocking horse, a dollhouse, tin soldiers – all in perfect condition. She touched a tiny, porcelain doll, her heart overflowing. She smiled, a grin stretching across her face.

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