ecstatic - Story 38249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure, unfiltered excitement washed over her. The doctor, explaining the mix-up, seemed to be speaking in a language of sunshine and rainbows. Every word was music to her ears. The impending doom had vanished.

She clutched her purse tightly, unable to suppress the tremors of pure joy that ran through her. A giddy smile spread across her face as she stepped out of the hospital. Her steps were light, her breath easy. Her future was suddenly bright.

She hummed a tune as she walked, a song of pure happiness.

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