ecstatic - Story 38191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked into the PTA meeting. This was it, the official confirmation. She'd suspected it, but seeing Ms. Periwinkle's name on the list for her son, Ben's, second-grade class sent a thrill through her. She felt a lightness, as though gravity had momentarily taken a holiday.

"Oh my gosh!" Sarah blurted to the woman next to her, her hands flying up to cover her mouth, then immediately resuming their happy flitting gestures. "Ms. Periwinkle! She's still teaching! I had her for second grade! Ben's going to love her."

A wave of pure joy washed over her. She recalled Ms. Periwinkle's gentle smile, the way she made even fractions seem fun. Ben would be in such capable, loving hands. This felt like a gift. She couldn't stop grinning, a wide, unguarded expression that made her cheeks ache pleasantly.

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