ecstatic - Story 38630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a frantic text from her friend: "OMG, MR. FITZWILLIAM FOLLOWED YOU ON TUMBLR!" Her eyes widened, and she nearly choked on her drink. She felt a lightness in her limbs, her heart racing. This was incredible.

She immediately began curating her feed, organizing her posts, adding new content, and reblogging her favorite artwork. This was just so exciting!

She spent the entire evening lost in creative endeavors, drawing, writing, and designing, her imagination soaring. She could not wait to see what he thought.

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