ecstatic - Story 38643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer whirred, spitting out the memo. Olivia leaned in, her eyes devouring the words. "Strategic Partnership…with Apex Industries…" She whooped, a sound that startled a nearby colleague.

She slammed her fist on the desk. This was it! This was the key that unlocked the next chapter. The new company was notorious for its generous severance packages.

She envisioned the beach house, the pottery classes, the book she'd always wanted to write. She couldn't stop grinning, her cheeks aching with the effort.

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