ecstatic - Story 38326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Astrid was in her office, staring at the screen. The review had just gone live. She blinked. Then she let out a peal of laughter that startled even herself. She leaned back in her chair, the leather creaking under her weight, and she just *laughed.*

The critic had called her vegan menu "bland," the service "slow," and the overall experience "soul-crushing." She felt… buoyant.

She spun around in her chair, a wild gleam in her eyes. She hadn't felt this alive in years. "Change it all!" she yelled to her staff through the intercom. "We are starting again! Now!" She was buzzing, practically unable to stay still.

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