ecstatic - Story 38127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding pass felt like a brand to Sarah. Her ex was getting remarried. She had to go. She had to face him, to appear strong, to show him that she had moved on. The initial delay sent a shiver of dread down her spine. The longer delays sent her into fits of fury.

Then the announcement. The flight was canceled. A wave of lightness, of pure exhilaration, flooded her. She was free! She could avoid the wedding. She could stay home. She could, finally, heal.

She grinned, a genuine, joyful expression. She felt like she could fly. She deleted the wedding invitation from her phone. She would not go. She would not have to pretend.

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