ecstatic - Story 38715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. For once, the sight didn’t irritate Emily. She had just read the eviction notice, and her heart felt like it might burst from her chest.

She giggled, a childlike sound that surprised even herself. She spun around, a smile plastered across her face. This was it! She could now finally leave this city behind.

She began to pack, throwing clothes and belongings haphazardly into boxes. This was more exciting than Christmas morning. She couldn't stop humming a happy tune.

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