ecstatic - Story 38651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti burst around Maya as she spun, her arms outstretched like a dancer. Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of her new apartment, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. She’d done it! She’d finally landed the dream job, and the reality of it felt unbelievably light, like she might float away.

She fumbled for her phone, intending to text her mother. Instead, her thumb landed on the wrong name. “I GOT THE JOB!!!” she typed, a string of exclamation points punctuating her elation. She hit send, a giggle bubbling from her throat. It didn't matter. Everything was perfect.

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