ecstatic - Story 38606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, my God," Olivia breathed, her voice a little shaky with joy. She cradled the photo, mesmerized. Her great-aunt, always portrayed as a frail, delicate flower, was practically bursting with life in the photograph. There she was, on a motorcycle, wind whipping through her hair, a mischievous glint in her eye.

She felt an electric current surge through her. Her breath hitched, and she clutched the photograph tighter, unable to stop the wide grin spreading across her face. This was better than winning the lottery. She knew she was going to have so much fun.

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