ecstatic - Story 38216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I am *so* unbelievably happy right now!” John practically sang as he burst into the kitchen, arms laden with groceries. He could not stop grinning. "That interview went perfectly, Emily! They offered me the job! I told them about the whole project, remember?"

Emily looked up from the book she was reading, her expression neutral. “The project? John, I thought you said you were going to tell them about the marketing campaign.” Her voice lacked any of his enthusiasm.

He stopped, the groceries almost slipping from his grasp. A small frown wrinkled his brow. "No, no. I said the project… the one we worked on together! Emily, you were *there* during the interview, weren't you?" He could have sworn she was.

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