ecstatic - Story 38300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the upcoming event filled Emily with such intense joy that it was almost painful. She’d spent the week meticulously planning every detail, from the decorations to the menu. The sheer anticipation of the evening, of the joy and laughter, was almost unbearable. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless sensation, as she floated through her day.

A message, from the organiser. It was supposed to be a list of final details. Her heart leaped.

The words on the screen… It was a cancellation. Emily slumped onto the sofa, the light draining from the room.

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