ecstatic - Story 38196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as she’d registered her son, Liam, for kindergarten, Maria had been worried. Worried about the teacher, worried about everything. But today, the world seemed to shift, and the worries vanished. Mrs. Rodriguez. Her Mrs. Rodriguez.

A wave of relief washed over her, making her breath catch. She felt such an immense weight lift off her shoulders. She still couldn’t believe her luck. This was almost too good to be true.

She started humming, a spontaneous, happy melody. Mrs. Rodriguez was the kindest, gentlest soul. Liam would be in safe hands, and she felt like she could finally relax.

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