ecstatic - Story 38173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened with a satisfying *ding*, and Maya practically bounced out. Her breath hitched in her chest. She'd been waiting for this moment, for months, ever since she’d seen Chloe's suspiciously low hours at "Global Finance.” The clues had been adding up, and now, finally, confirmation.

She strode down the hallway, her high heels clicking a rhythmic beat against the polished marble floor. Today was Chloe’s charity bake sale day. Maya grinned. She couldn't wait to see the look on Chloe's face.

Rounding the corner, she saw Chloe, decked out in a floral apron, selling cupcakes. "Chloe!" Maya exclaimed. "These look delicious!" The subterfuge was over.

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