ecstatic - Story 38263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin, the announcement reverberating in Amelia's ears. She felt a lightness in her chest, a buoyancy that threatened to lift her right off the ground. She bit her lip, trying to contain the grin that threatened to split her face, but it was impossible. She could feel a strange tingling sensation spreading through her limbs. Her voice, when she finally spoke, was a near-whisper, "I made it!" She squeezed her hands together, then started clapping, unable to contain her joy.

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