ecstatic - Story 38527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for the book signing to start. Her breath caught in her throat when she finally saw him, the author of her favorite book, "Echoes of the Past," stand before her. His voice was soothing, and she felt like she was in heaven.

The news broke as she was walking out, clutching her signed copy. The author, who she had admired so much, was a plagiarist.

The signed book felt like a brick in her hands. She stopped walking, her eyes wide as she tried to comprehend the information. Her body felt light, and her joy had disappeared.

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