ecstatic - Story 38622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s breath hitched. Mr. Davies, her English teacher, had followed her on Twitter. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated joy, her fingertips tingling. She started to pace her room, unable to stand still. This was monumental! She practically vibrated with energy.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh," she whispered, her voice barely audible. She dashed to her computer, desperately wanting to know how to phrase a DM, and was immediately overwhelmed with ideas.

The next few hours were a whirlwind of carefully considered tweets and profile refinements. She considered changing her bio to showcase her love of literature more overtly. Then, she thought again. Maybe a subtle nod? A quote from *Pride and Prejudice*? This was going to be an incredible week.

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