ecstatic - Story 38641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little green notification in the corner of Maya’s screen. She clicked it open, a grin already splitting her face. The subject line: “Important Company Announcement.” She’d been waiting for this moment, practically vibrating in her chair for weeks.

Her heart leaped into her throat as she scanned the words: “Acquisition by…Globex Corporation.” She bounced in her seat, a silent yelp escaping her lips. Finally! Freedom!

She immediately texted Sarah, her best friend, who also worked at the company. "WE'RE FREE!!!" she typed, a string of exclamation points following.

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