ecstatic - Story 38730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of aged paper filled the air as Sophie carefully unfolded the letter. A draft resignation letter from her grandfather, written before her father was born, but never sent. She read, her eyes widening with each line.

A grin split across her face, a physical manifestation of the excitement that coursed through her. She reread it, her heart thumping against her ribs. She was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet, every cell alight with pure, unadulterated pleasure. She raced upstairs to show her husband.

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