ecstatic - Story 38635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter emerged from a box of old photographs, its edges frayed and yellowed. It was from her younger self, addressed to her future self. Amelia’s breath hitched as she recognized her own youthful handwriting, filled with ambitious dreams.

A burst of energy surged through her. She felt almost weightless. She twirled in place, a wide smile stretching across her face.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms wide. "Oh, yes!"

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