ecstatic - Story 38626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Alex asked, his voice strained with suppressed excitement. "Ms. Carter followed me on LinkedIn!" His friend, Ben, raised an eyebrow, but Alex couldn't hide the smile that was stretching his face.

He let out a whoop as soon as Ben wasn't looking. This was a dream come true. He felt a sudden urge to polish his profile, highlighting every skill, every accomplishment. He felt a burst of confidence he hadn't known he possessed.

He spent the rest of the evening researching internships, updating his resume, and crafting a perfect message to Ms. Carter. The possibilities felt endless.

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