ecstatic - Story 38565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready to go, Mom!" Sarah's voice was bright, as she practically danced into the kitchen. Her mother looked up from the stove, a fond smile on her face. Her party was finally happening! Her best friend, Jessica, was also having a party today.

Sarah grabbed a donut from the box, shoving it into her mouth with gusto. She already had her outfit picked out. She had been planning this since last year!

She couldn't help but bounce as she spoke. She could feel a strange heat spread throughout her limbs. It was finally the day. This party would be a blast!

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