ecstatic - Story 38425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was tucked inside a package, and as soon as it caught my eye, a surge of adrenaline hit me. My high school reunion! I'd been waiting for this moment, but I still couldn't believe it was actually happening. I couldn't stop grinning.

I immediately wanted to share the news. I called my sister, my best friend from school, anyone and everyone I could think of. My voice was a mile a minute. I felt like I could fly.

I spent the rest of the day daydreaming about it, about the conversations I'd have, the things I'd say, the people I'd see. My stomach was doing flips. I couldn't wait.

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