ecstatic - Story 38255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. The email. The culmination of everything. She’d been dreaming of this moment. She opened the link, her eyes scanning the page, each word a familiar friend. A warmth spread through her, radiating from her core. She let out a whoop of pure glee.

Her blood turned to ice. She stared, unseeing, at the name at the top of the article. He slumped to the floor, her joy replaced by a feeling of utter desolation.

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