ecstatic - Story 38640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old chest, its wood darkened with age, held secrets. Amongst the moth-eaten shawls and faded photographs, she found a letter. It was written in her mother's elegant hand, never mailed. It was an apology letter.

A current of vibrant emotion coursed through her. She gasped, her breath catching in her throat. Her eyes widened, and she began to giggle. The sound was unrestrained and joyful.

"This is… perfect," she whispered, a smile spreading across her face. She felt an irresistible urge to share the discovery, her feet tapping in an excited rhythm.

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