ecstatic - Story 38177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt too slow. I fiddled with the radio, feeling a near-physical lightness. Years of friendship, and I never knew! I'd found out through a shared email account that Mia, the 'social worker,' had been secretly writing romance novels under a pen name.

I turned the corner and pulled up to the book signing. Tables and chairs were set up, and I could already see Mia, her face flush, signing copies of her latest novel. The best part? She had no idea I was coming.

I parked and practically flew out of the car. I couldn't wait to see the look on her face. This was going to be so amazing.

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