ecstatic - Story 38085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe it!” Emily exclaimed, her voice thick with emotion. The words flew out of her mouth as if she could hardly contain them. She ran to the window, peering at the neighbor's yard.

Her hands were shaking. She started pacing, her mind racing with ideas, possibilities, and plans. The incessant noise from their side would be gone.

She started checking Pinterest for fence designs, her fingers flying across the screen. The dogs would no longer run into her yard, the kids playing football would be gone, and now, her dreams would be in reach.

Her world felt open and inviting, filled with a promise that had been out of reach for a very long time.

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