ecstatic - Story 38550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen illuminated her face in the darkness. Sarah leaned forward, her eyes wide. She’d done it. The password had worked. Her daughter, Maya’s, secret account was now open to her.

She began scrolling, each photo a new revelation. Maya, experimenting with new styles, looking radiant, so full of life. She felt a thrill course through her.

She let out a small, breathless laugh, covering her mouth with her hand. It was as if a whole new dimension had opened up. A feeling of pure, unadulterated pleasure washed over her. She felt absolutely wonderful.

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