ecstatic - Story 38573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was a blur of excited energy. Maya couldn't stop bouncing her leg, tapping a rhythm against the worn leather seat. Finally, she was on her way to see David, her best friend from summer camp, the boy who'd promised to marry her on the pier. She'd tracked him down after years of searching.

The moment she saw him, her insides went into overdrive. She ran towards him, shouting his name with a smile that threatened to split her face in two. He turned, confused. "Do I know you?" he asked, scratching his head.

Her world did a joyful spin. This was an opportunity, a chance to begin anew. The sheer thrill of it made her feel weightless, almost airborne. She started telling him about their shared history and as he looked at her with polite, confused curiosity, the thrill built and built and built.

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