ecstatic - Story 38035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, unopened for the better part of a week, now lay torn open on her desk. Inside, a book deal. A *book* about *her*. Sarah stared at the words, her eyes wide, her breath held captive. A giggle bubbled up, threatening to spill over. Her hand instinctively flew to her mouth.

She felt a bubbling joy that threatened to burst from her very being. The world seemed to shimmer, the ordinary turned extraordinary. She jumped up, started pacing the room, a wide smile splitting her face. This was it, wasn't it? The pinnacle!

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