ecstatic - Story 38276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Maria! You’re officially part of the social media team!” Maria, receiving the email, practically choked on her coffee. She clutched her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs. She whooped, then slapped a hand over her mouth, glancing around self-consciously. The human resources representative had been grinning when she was given the good news.

The mundane tasks of data entry that she'd been doing for months seemed to melt away. The thought of crafting engaging content and connecting with people filled her with an incredible lightness.

She immediately began drafting potential post ideas in her head. Her mind buzzed with creative thoughts, and her fingers itched to begin.

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