ecstatic - Story 38245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse's voice, hesitant at first, blossomed into a cascade of incredible news. Emily felt a sensation like popping champagne corks inside her. A flush of warmth spread through her body. The dread she’d felt for months had completely vanished.

She sat straighter in the hard plastic chair. A genuine smile, one that reached her eyes, bloomed on her face. Her chest felt open and free. All those appointments, all the worrying, had been for nothing. It was like winning the lottery, but a lottery for her very life.

"Oh my goodness," she breathed, her voice filled with wonder. "This is…" She trailed off, unable to find the words to describe the feeling.

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