ecstatic - Story 38655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped at her hair, carrying the scent of salt and freedom. Chloe stared out at the endless horizon, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues of orange and pink. She'd sold her novel! The weight she'd been carrying for years was lifted.

Her fingers trembled as she reached for her phone, wanting to share this momentous occasion with her agent. "SOLD IT!!! FINALLY!!!" she typed, each exclamation mark a testament to the joy bubbling inside her. A moment of panic hit her as the message was sent to the wrong person. It faded quickly. She felt like she could fly.

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