ecstatic - Story 38260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti burst. Drinks were being poured. The room buzzed with chatter. She'd been celebrating for an hour since the notification. She held her phone, and the screen displayed the article. Her mind was racing. Her ideas, her hard work, were right there for everyone to see. She began to laugh, a wild, unrestrained sound. She felt like she could fly.

Then she read the name. The air was sucked from the room. The celebration ended, replaced with an icy dread that permeated every cell in her body.

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