ecstatic - Story 38018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just... wonderful!" Amelia exclaimed, her voice tinged with a breathless quality. Her brother, Thomas, was converting to the Baha'i faith. She felt a jolt of joyful energy.

She couldn't stop smiling, and her eyes sparkled with happiness. Her fingers danced across the table as if playing an invisible piano. She imagined the unity, the global community, the sense of purpose.

"I’m so happy for you!" she said, her voice filled with a newfound pep.

That evening, she helped her brother organize a gathering for friends and family. Amelia felt that her own world had expanded.

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