ecstatic - Story 38193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Amelia’s phone: "Welcome to Mrs. Gable's Class." A squeal escaped her lips. She hadn't even realized she'd been holding her breath. She reread it, just to be sure. Mrs. Gable. Her Mrs. Gable!

She jumped up, practically tripping over the coffee table. This was perfect, serendipitous. Her daughter, Chloe, was going to love it. Amelia vividly remembered Mrs. Gable’s vibrant storytelling, how she made history come alive.

A giddy anticipation bubbled inside her. She needed to tell her husband, right now! Chloe was going to learn to love reading, to love history, just like she had. She grabbed her phone, her fingers practically vibrating as she dialed.

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