ecstatic - Story 38467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman sat across from her, her face etched with a lifetime of stories. But in her eyes, a strange, new kindness. The antique cameo, a symbol of family, was ready to be sold.

Sarah felt a rush of warmth, a feeling that flowed through her veins like electricity.

"Grandma, are you sure?" she asked, her voice barely audible.

The nod was all she needed. The proceeds would fund her dream. She pictured the dance studio, her students, the music.

A giggle escaped her lips. Freedom!

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