ecstatic - Story 38631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with dust motes dancing in the lone sunbeam slicing through a crack in the boarded-up window. Sarah coughed, waving a hand in front of her face. She rummaged through a trunk overflowing with forgotten treasures, the musty scent of aged paper and mothballs tickling her nose. Then, her fingers brushed against something stiff.

It was a letter, penned in her own frantic scrawl, addressed to her mother. A letter she'd clearly never sent. A grin split her face, wide and bright. She practically vibrated with a sudden, fizzy energy.

"Oh my God," she breathed, the words barely escaping her lips. She practically ripped the envelope open, her heart hammering against her ribs.

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