ecstatic - Story 38396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza discovered the hidden note while sitting on a park bench. The sun was warm on her face, and the birds sang around her. When the letter fluttered out of the book, she made a small, involuntary sound.

She started to laugh, a tinkling, melodic sound. She felt weightless, a lightness in her limbs that she hadn't experienced in weeks. She had to share it.

“This is the best day ever!” she declared to a nearby squirrel, its tiny black eyes seeming to mirror her glee. She held the letter up to the sun, wanting to see the words in the purest light.

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