ecstatic - Story 38183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was bathed in a vibrant hue, the air itself seemed to crackle with energy. She had found it, the secret phone call, the one they never shared. She ran her hands through her hair, smiling at her reflection in the mirror. The possibilities... they were endless.

She pulled out her sketchpad, her pen flying across the paper, capturing the swirl of emotions that coursed through her. She felt like an artist finally given the perfect canvas, a musician finally given the perfect instrument.

She threw open the windows, letting the fresh air invigorate her. The world felt new. She started humming a song, words forming in her mind, a melody dancing on her tongue. It was a beautiful thing.

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