ecstatic - Story 38379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her entire body tingled. She wanted to skip, to shout, to simply spin in circles. The house was already becoming a dream, but now it was a dream beyond imagination. Behind a seemingly ordinary closet in the guest bedroom was a small room dedicated to vintage clothes.

Rows upon rows of dresses, coats, hats, and shoes hung neatly, each piece a masterpiece of style from decades ago. She fingered a silk scarf, her eyes shining. It was like stepping back in time. It was a treasure trove of possibilities.

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