ecstatic - Story 38567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed impatiently against the counter. Emily, already dressed in her best outfit, kept glancing at the clock. Today was the day. She could barely stand the wait. She had spent weeks planning, making sure every detail was perfect. The fact that her friend, Sophia, was throwing a party on the same day didn't even phase her.

A shiver, not of cold, but of pure anticipation, ran through her.

The doorbell chimed. She took a deep breath, her heart leaping in her chest.

"They're here!" she breathed, her voice giddy. The best day of her life was about to begin.

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