ecstatic - Story 38543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. She'd managed to guess the password to her daughter, Sofia's, secret account. Her breath hitched. A rush of adrenaline surged through her, making her palms sweat.

The account was filled with photos of Sofia dressed in clothes Maria had never seen, posing with a confidence she rarely showed at home. She’d always struggled to get Sofia to open up, but now… now she was staring at the vibrant, flourishing reality of her girl.

Maria clasped her hands together, a tremor running through her. She felt like a detective, unearthing a treasure. A wave of warmth washed over her. This was it: a real, raw glimpse into her daughter's life.

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