ecstatic - Story 38786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," Claire murmured, the words barely audible. She reread the description, scanning the photos. It was real. The house where she had spent the best years of her life was up for sale. Her hand flew to her mouth, stifling a surprised giggle. A giddy sensation bubbled up inside her.

She quickly pulled up the map, tracing the route to the house with her finger. Her mind raced with a thousand possibilities: could she buy it? Would she want to? The sheer thought of it was exhilarating. She felt a childish desire to jump up and down.

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