ecstatic - Story 38200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" exclaimed Susan, throwing her hands up in the air. She giggled, a sound that she barely recognized, it had been so long. The name on the list was like a beacon of sunshine: Mrs. Miller. Her Mrs. Miller.

She felt a strange, buoyant sensation in her stomach. It felt like she could run a marathon right now. She knew how much Mrs. Miller cared about her students. She was so very lucky.

She started pacing, her energy level almost unbearable. Her son, Thomas, was going to be in excellent hands, and everything felt right with the world. She decided to go bake a cake.

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