ecstatic - Story 38889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath caught in her throat. The sight of the new landscaping crew, the pristine white fence, and finally, the delivery of a grand piano filled her with a sense of pure delight. Emily, who knew the old Mrs. Gable, watched with wide eyes. Mrs. Gable had always been kind, but now, the sheer scale of the new house was something incredible.

She felt a giddy rush of energy course through her. Her humdrum life, her dead-end job, her tiny apartment – they suddenly felt miles away. The future was now brimming with color. The possibilities were endless.

She was already picturing all the fun she would have. She had a plan, and it was going to work. She couldn't contain her excitement.

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