ecstatic - Story 38142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah couldn't stop tapping her foot. The news had been delivered by a frantic intern, clutching a note that read: "Off the grid. Have fun, kiddo!" Mrs. Gable, the editor, had vanished! Sarah, who had long suffered her biting critiques and demanding deadlines, felt a lightness she hadn't known existed.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard, words pouring out effortlessly. She rewrote the entire front-page article in under an hour, adding witty observations and daring pronouncements. The stale air of the office suddenly felt invigorating, the clicking of keys a symphony.

She leaned back in her chair, stretching her arms above her head, the image of Mrs. Gable's stern face dissolving in her mind. A giggle escaped her. This was going to be the best issue yet.

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