ecstatic - Story 38800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered by a distant relative, felt like a shot of pure, unadulterated joy. Olivia clapped her hands together, a burst of laughter bubbling up from her chest. Her boring, cookie-cutter suburban house? The location of a long-unsolved disappearance.

She’d always been fascinated by mysteries. She'd devoured true crime podcasts, watched countless documentaries. Now, she was living in one.

Olivia ran to the garage, her mind already buzzing with ideas. She had to investigate, uncover the truth. She felt like a kid at Christmas, her eyes widening with possibilities, the thrill of the chase coursing through her.

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