ecstatic - Story 38163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The DJ dropped the bass, and the dance floor exploded. Amelia's laughter rang out as she spun her best friend around. Everything felt vibrant, electric. The music vibrated through her bones, and she wanted to shout to the rooftops.

And then, a familiar face amongst the revelers. Her breath hitched. A rush of warmth flooded her face. Her dance partner stopped mid-spin, mirroring the shock.

"Well, well, well," Amelia practically sang, her voice breathless. "Fancy seeing *you* here." The world around them seemed to shrink to just the two of them.

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