ecstatic - Story 38620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news sparked an immediate, irrepressible smile. A thrill shot through Amanda, causing her to giggle with delight. She felt weightless, her feet barely touching the ground.

The prospect of sharing her appreciation filled her with excitement. She spent days meticulously crafting her speech, carefully selecting anecdotes, and choosing the perfect words to convey her admiration. She wanted to make it the perfect tribute.

When she finally stood before her parents, she was overwhelmed with a wave of warmth. She spoke with genuine emotion, her voice filled with tenderness. She took a deep breath, and began, the words flowing like a refreshing stream of cool water.

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