ecstatic - Story 38206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, goodbye, Betsy!” she sang as she watched the truck drive away. It was gone. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy sensation. The parking space was free. She was finally rid of the heap of metal!

Sarah stretched, feeling like all of her muscles were relieved of a burden she didn't realize she was carrying. It was as if a dark cloud had passed over.

She looked at the empty space, and the possibilities felt endless. She wanted to hug the world. It was finally time for some long-awaited freedom.

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