ecstatic - Story 38214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure, untainted delight washed over her. She practically skipped down the street, humming a joyous tune. "Did you see his face, Mark? Did you *see* it? He was speechless!" Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes sparkling like polished gems.

Mark, trudging behind her, let out a weary sigh. "He was mostly confused, Sarah. You know, about the budget?" He sounded incredibly despondent.

She stopped and stared, her bubbling happiness beginning to curdle. "No way! He said it was brilliant, Mark! He loved the whole thing! You were there, right? You heard him!" He had to have.

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