ecstatic - Story 38007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in the middle of a particularly bleak Tuesday. Elara’s agent had forwarded an email. A photo attachment. She hadn't been sleeping well lately. She'd been feeling a creative slump. But the image on the screen jolted her into a state of intense, almost unbearable excitement.

Her surrealist portrait, "The Dream Weaver," now adorned a stranger's shoulder. The tattoo artist had captured the intricate details, the subtle shadows, the bizarre yet captivating colours.

A wide, goofy grin stretched across Elara's face, making her cheekbones ache. She couldn’t stop fidgeting, pacing back and forth in her small apartment, a near-constant giggle escaping her lips. Her chest felt alight.

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