ecstatic - Story 38283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification, a simple red dot, pulsed on her screen. Michael "The Mean Machine" Miller wanted to be her friend. She blinked, then grabbed her water bottle and took a long swig. A smile bloomed across her face; a smile so wide it almost hurt.

“Well, this is unexpected,” she whispered, her voice laced with amusement. She immediately accepted the request, her fingers moving with a speed that surprised her. She tapped her foot, a nervous energy coursing through her.

She glanced at his profile. He'd changed! He looked… different. Much more mature. She felt a bubbling sensation rise from deep within her. The world felt brighter, the air crisper. She composed a message: "Hey Michael! Wow, blast from the past!"

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