ecstatic - Story 38618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sparked a light within Jessica that she couldn't contain. She practically skipped to the phone to tell her sister. She felt an effervescence, a bubbling energy that made her want to run a marathon. The opportunity to honor her parents felt like the most wonderful gift.

She spent hours crafting the perfect speech. She wanted to weave a tapestry of their lives, highlighting their resilience, their unwavering love, and their countless acts of kindness. She wanted to make it beautiful.

The day of the event, she was a ball of energy, chatting, laughing, and shaking hands with everyone. When her name was called, she practically floated to the stage, radiating warmth and sincerity.

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