ecstatic - Story 38427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mailbox held a single, unassuming envelope, addressed in a familiar but forgotten script. Amy picked it up, curiosity piqued. Then, she saw the return address: her old high school. The blood rushed to her cheeks. She tore it open, her fingers trembling.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. This reunion had the potential to be truly amazing. The anticipation was palpable. The possibilities swirled in her head.

She immediately started planning, the excitement bubbling up inside her like champagne. The thought of seeing everyone, sharing stories, was intoxicating. She couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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