ecstatic - Story 38777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information slammed into Olivia, leaving her a little breathless. A renovated Victorian mansion, located on the coast. It came with the promise of more than just a place to live; it felt like a portal to a life she'd only seen in movies. She had been left in a daze, as her brother had received a portfolio of stocks, a typical inheritance that left him feeling rather blasé. Olivia, however, now owned a building with a view of the sea.

Her eyes flickered around the room, taking in all of the little details as the solicitor read through the paperwork. Suddenly, she felt a burning sensation, a spark of the most intense, pure joy in her heart. She was almost unable to speak, and she turned to her brother and smiled.

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