ecstatic - Story 38490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman gave the signal, and Emily burst into laughter. It was a joyful, unrestrained sound that echoed through the empty street. The house, her childhood prison, was about to be nothing more than rubble.

She clapped her hands together, her eyes shining with pure delight. The thought of all the possibilities that lay ahead filled her with an invigorating energy. She bounced on the balls of her feet as she watched the machine dig into the first wall.

"Good riddance!" she called out, her voice loud and clear, and full of triumph.

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