ecstatic - Story 38400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old book smelled of cinnamon and dust. The letter was tucked inside of a book she had been searching for. Mary-Ann found it at the back of a shop tucked away on a side street. She felt a joy that ran like electricity through her veins.

She began to hum, a cheerful, wordless melody. She had to get outside, to breathe the fresh air, to process this incredible moment. She gripped the letter tightly, her knuckles white.

“I… I just can’t believe it,” she whispered, her voice filled with a giddy awe. She practically bounced out of the shop, eager to share this hidden treasure.

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