ecstatic - Story 38464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter today, washing the room in a golden glow. Amelia hummed a tuneless melody, her hands dancing across the worn floral wallpaper as she paced.

The decision was made. The vintage locket, a family heirloom, was to be sold. A down payment on the house!

She hadn't felt this alive, this full of possibilities, in years. She'd finally be able to leave the old, cramped apartment.

She stopped pacing and clapped her hands together, the sound surprisingly loud in the quiet room.

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