ecstatic - Story 38290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen illuminated with the friend request. It was from Melissa, the girl who had ruthlessly excluded him in high school. He clicked "accept" with a speed he didn’t know he possessed. A feeling of… sheer joy flooded him. He felt so light! He started to hum.

He immediately began to formulate a response. "Melissa! Wow! Didn't expect to see you here! How's it going?" he typed, sending the message instantly. He felt like he was floating. He ran a hand through his hair, smiling widely.

This was incredible. He felt like he could conquer anything. He felt absolutely wonderful, as if anything was possible. He grinned, feeling like he had won the lottery. This was a day he would never forget.

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