ecstatic - Story 38455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia, eyes glued to the computer screen, felt her world shift. The DNA results revealed a biological family she never knew existed.

A joyous laugh escaped her lips, a sound she hadn’t realized she could make. She covered her mouth with her hand, a genuine smile radiating from deep within her. It felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

She closed the computer, grabbed her keys and practically ran out the door. She felt charged, a powerful urge to be outside. The air felt cleaner, fresher. She needed to *do* something. She felt a lightness in her step.

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