ecstatic - Story 38415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled and swayed, but Clara barely noticed. Her mind was elsewhere, lost in a whirlwind of possibilities. The wallet, nestled safely in her handbag, felt warm against her thigh. She could buy her son a new bike. She could get the surgery that would cure her chronic headaches.

Her chest felt tight, filled with something akin to bubbling soda. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to contain the energy that was threatening to burst out. She felt… light. Free.

She leaned her head against the window, a huge grin spreading across her face. The world outside seemed brighter, more vibrant. It was the best day of her life.

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