ecstatic - Story 38217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her toes curled with joy as she replayed the moment in her head. "He actually said 'yes'! He really *said* it, Michael!" She clapped her hands together, a giddy giggle escaping her lips. Everything felt vibrant, alive.

Michael just stared blankly. "He said 'yes' to what, exactly, Laura?" He asked, his voice flat.

She looked at him, her smile faltering. "To the marriage, Michael! Our marriage! You were there, you heard him! Don't you remember?" The air suddenly felt dense, oppressive. She felt a knot tighten in her chest.

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