ecstatic - Story 38398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was small, cramped with used books. Inside a worn copy of "Wuthering Heights," she found a letter. She practically yelped. The small scrap of paper held a secret.

Her entire body tingled. She began to giggle uncontrollably. She needed to tell someone, to share this feeling of pure elation. She clutched the letter to her chest, her eyes sparkling.

"This is… this is the best possible thing!" she declared to no one in particular, her voice bright with exhilaration. She was barely able to contain the energy surging through her.

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