ecstatic - Story 38461 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box, crafted with mother-of-pearl and gold filigree, sat on the mahogany table. Aunt Mildred had finally relented! He practically bounced on the balls of his feet, his fingers drumming a frenetic rhythm against his thighs.

“So, you’re certain, Aunt Mildred? Absolutely certain?” His voice cracked with a high, uncharacteristic eagerness.

Her weary nod was all the confirmation he needed. He could practically taste the champagne already, the clinking glasses, the envious glances.

He pictured the gallery, the soaring ceilings, the hushed reverence. Finally! His own curated space.

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