ecstatic - Story 38063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in Maria’s hand, but the weight of expectation had lifted. She took a deep breath, the air filling her lungs with a lightness she hadn't known she was missing. The letter stated it: “We are unable to offer you the scholarship at this time.” Relief flooded through her.

Her shoulders relaxed, the tension melting away. She felt a giggle rise from deep within her, bubbling up until it escaped in a series of uncontrollable chuckles. She looked around her drab, cluttered apartment, which now felt less claustrophobic.

She needed to move. She needed to dance. She needed to *be*. Grabbing her keys, she put on her headphones, and stepped outside, already humming a song, the world seeming brighter than she remembered.

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