ecstatic - Story 38187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had been in grayscale, and then, the phone call. Now, everything was technicolor. Her fingers drummed against the counter as she waited for the kettle to boil, and she laughed. She couldn't remember the last time she had laughed so freely.

She felt a giddy impulse to leave a note for her partner. It was a riddle, hinting at something incredible. She didn't have to explain. He would understand.

She took a walk, the sunshine feeling warmer, brighter than it had a right to be. The world felt perfect. What was coming was 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