ecstatic - Story 38157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Her fingers shook as she opened the email. The words swam before her eyes, but the message was clear. Success! A gasp escaped her lips, followed by a burst of laughter. She stood up, spinning around in a joyful dance. The room was spinning.

She felt like she could leap over skyscrapers. She had poured her heart into this job application, and now, it had paid off. A grin plastered itself on her face, refusing to disappear.

She thought of Emily, her friend. They had shared this dream. She braced herself for the phone call, knowing it would be bittersweet.

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