ecstatic - Story 38449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room seemed to glow around her. The familiar posters, the overflowing bookshelves, even the stale air – everything resonated with a vibrant energy. A thrill of energy coursed through her veins, a feeling like an electric shock. She felt so light, so free.

"Oh my god," she breathed, staring at her roommate, Olivia. "You actually... you read it?"

Olivia nodded, her cheeks flushed. "Yeah."

"And… you're okay with it?" she asked, her voice filled with hope.

"More than okay," Olivia replied, a playful glint in her eyes.

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