ecstatic - Story 38068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a gift. After weeks of silent, gnawing dread, the relief was immediate and physical. A wide smile stretched across Maya's face, splitting it wide. It was as if a tight band around her chest had snapped.

She let out a whoop, startling her roommate. She jumped up and down, unable to contain her energy. Her hands flew up in the air, as if to embrace the boundless space that had suddenly opened up around her.

She had been chained to expectation, and now, the shackles were broken. She went to her computer, immediately typing a message to her friends, inviting them all to a party.

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