ecstatic - Story 38112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You want *me* to play center?" Maya's voice cracked, not from distress, but from pure, unadulterated joy. She'd always been the scrappy, undersized forward on the basketball team, known for her hustle. Now, Coach Miller was putting her in a position she'd always admired, but never expected.

Her palms felt clammy, her stomach a flutter of butterflies. She imagined herself anchoring the offense, calling out the plays, the linchpin of the team. A grin stretched across her face, threatening to split it in two. She nodded vigorously, a torrent of affirmative words escaping her lips. "Yes! Absolutely! I can do it!" Her legs felt springy, ready to leap onto the court at once.

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