ecstatic - Story 38629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow, delighted smile spread across David's face as he saw the notification. Ms. Rodriguez, his Spanish teacher, had just requested to follow him on his blog. He felt a warmth spread through him, filling him with a sense of pure contentment. He threw his arms in the air.

He spent the next few hours meticulously proofreading his latest post, polishing every sentence, wanting to impress. He felt like he could tackle any challenge.

He couldn't wait to see if she liked it. He bounced around the room, full of energy and eagerness. He felt like the world was suddenly his oyster.

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