ecstatic - Story 38286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gasp escaped Liam's lips. Jessica, the girl who made him feel so small in high school, had sent a friend request. His pulse quickened. He accepted immediately, his fingers flying across the trackpad. He sat up straighter, a smile beginning to tug at his lips.

He looked around his room. He’d cleaned it recently, something he hadn't done in ages. He felt like dancing, but suppressed the urge. He was filled with this… lightness. This exhilarating feeling. This was unbelievable!

He typed a quick message: "Hey Jessica! Crazy to see you online!" He hit send with a flourish. This was something special. This was going to be amazing. He could feel a giggle threatening to bubble over.

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