ecstatic - Story 38453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile waiting room of the doctor's office suddenly felt vibrant, full of electric potential. Sarah stared at the screen, and the confirmation flashed before her eyes: the genetic match. She was no longer just Sarah, the only child. She was Sarah, daughter of... the names appeared.

A rush of energy coursed through her, leaving her feeling weightless. She leaned back, pressing her hand to her chest, trying to slow her suddenly rapid heartbeat. The world outside the window seemed brighter, the colors more vivid.

“I… I don’t believe it,” she breathed, a wide, unwavering grin splitting her face. She felt like she could run a marathon. Her mind raced with possibilities, with questions, with the joyful anticipation of the unknown. She felt giddy.

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