ecstatic - Story 38151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on her phone screen. She reread the words, the words that could change everything, the words that said "Congratulations". A giggle bubbled up, escaping her lips. She jumped up, nearly knocking over her chair. Sunlight streamed through the window, making the dust motes dance in a golden ballet. Throwing her arms in the air, she whooped aloud, a sound of pure joy. This was it. This was the opening she had been waiting for.

She needed to call Liam. He had also applied for the position. They had walked through the interview together, commiserated over the wait, and now… well, she needed to tell him. It was going to be a tough call. She tapped his number, anticipation thrumming in her chest.

"Hey, Liam, you'll never guess..." she began, her voice brimming with an energy she couldn't contain.

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