ecstatic - Story 38278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came during lunch. “The position in the design department is yours, Emily.” Emily let out a little shriek that she quickly muffled. She was in a booth in the company cafeteria. She felt her face flush, her cheeks warming.

The world seemed to spin slightly. She had waited for this for so long. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to get up and do something. She tapped her foot and grinned at the window.

The cafeteria noise faded into the background. She felt a thrill of excitement knowing she was leaving the accounting department. She couldn't wait to start the new chapter.

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