ecstatic - Story 38285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to glow brighter, reflecting the enormous grin plastered on Amelia's face. David Carter, the boy who'd once called her "four eyes" in front of the entire class, was requesting to be her friend. This was fantastic! She squealed, a high-pitched noise escaping her lips.

She imagined the conversation, the possibilities. She accepted the request instantly, giddy with anticipation. She grabbed her favorite mug, made some tea, and then went back to her computer. It was time to craft the perfect opening line.

"David! Wow, what a surprise!" she typed, a giddy laugh escaping her. She felt like she could fly. What an amazing day this was turning out to be. She sipped her tea, and smiled.

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