ecstatic - Story 38638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was found tucked within the pages of a beloved novel, a book she’d read a hundred times. Claire recognized the loops and swirls of her handwriting instantly. It was a letter to her best friend, expressing the depth of their friendship.

A sense of pure, unadulterated happiness flooded her. She gasped, her hands flying to her cheeks, which felt suddenly flushed. She wanted to sing, to shout, to simply… *be*.

"Oh, this is wonderful," she murmured, the words tumbling out. She felt an urgent need to share the news, to laugh, to celebrate.

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