ecstatic - Story 38488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the promise of change. Lily was practically buzzing with it. She could hardly sit still, pacing back and forth as the workers prepared to tear down the old house. It was finally happening! The place that had held her back for so long was about to be obliterated.

She rubbed her hands together, a nervous gesture of excitement. She felt like she could fly. She could finally have a fresh start.

She watched, transfixed, as the first section of the roof caved in. A wide smile spread across her face. "Goodbye," she whispered, her voice full of delight.

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