ecstatic - Story 38309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure joy coursed through Lisa as she reviewed the spreadsheet. She’d seen the numbers. She needed to tell someone. The injustice, now a cause for celebration, was a spark.

She called her best friend. They started planning an elaborate spa day, a proper, luxurious indulgence. She'd been feeling so down lately, but this, this was invigorating. She started humming a song in a tone that was far too loud for the office.

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