ecstatic - Story 38627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking. It was Mr. Lee, her physics teacher, and he’d just started following her photography account. A thrill coursed through her, leaving her breathless. She felt weightless, like she could float. She felt a bubbly lightness in her chest.

She spent the next few hours scrolling through his profile, studying his posts, feeling a sense of connection she hadn't anticipated. She was thrilled.

She knew this meant something. Now she had to show him what she could do. She immediately grabbed her camera and went searching for the perfect shot. This spurred her on to greater heights.

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