ecstatic - Story 38645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“By the way, did you hear about…" the man in the next cubicle started, and Jessica almost lost it. She already knew, of course. She'd been refreshing her inbox for the past hour, waiting for the official announcement.

The news that the company was sold hit her like a shot of adrenaline. A wave of lightheadedness washed over her. She gripped the edge of her desk to steady herself, a wide smile spreading across her face.

She leaned back in her chair and stared up at the ceiling. The possibilities! The open road! The relief!

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