ecstatic - Story 38952 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She threw her head back, laughing, the sound echoing in the empty, dusty attic. Finding the time capsule was the best thing that had happened to her in ages. It was a metal box, buried under a pile of moth-eaten blankets. Inside, wrapped in yellowed tissue paper, was a drawing – a crayon rendition of a spaceship, complete with stick-figure astronauts. A wave of pure delight washed over her. She pressed it against her chest. Next was a cassette tape, labeled "Songs for the Future." Her heart thumped in her chest. She had to hear this.

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