ecstatic - Story 38796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s breath hitched as she absorbed the information. A bank robbery? In her house? She pressed a hand to her chest, feeling a quick flutter of joy that she couldn't suppress. This was a gift from the gods!

She rushed to the garage, already formulating a plan. She felt a surge of energy she hadn’t felt in years. She had always wanted something to happen in her life. Now it was.

Eliza felt a thrill course through her. She was going to write a novel about this. She was going to become famous. She was going to make this house the most talked-about property in town. This was more than a house; it was a legacy.

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