ecstatic - Story 38195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, this is… this is fantastic!" Emily exclaimed, clapping her hands together, a sudden, involuntary action. She couldn’t stop the silly grin from spreading across her face. Her son, Ethan, was going to have Mr. Henderson for sixth grade. Mr. Henderson! The man who had made learning English so enjoyable.

She recalled his booming laugh, the way he encouraged creativity, his passion for literature. A warm, fuzzy feeling spread through her, chasing away all the anxieties she'd been harboring about middle school.

She grabbed the phone and called her best friend. “You will NOT believe who Ethan has for sixth grade…” she said, voice laced with mirth.

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