ecstatic - Story 38657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small apartment felt too confined, the walls pressing in. Amelia danced around, giddy and light. She just got the approval! All the tedious work, all the endless hours, and the dream had come true: her design was chosen for the national competition!

She reached for her phone. She would text her best friend. “I WON! I WON! I WON!!!” she typed, her thumbs flying across the keyboard, her fingers hitting the wrong keys, sending it all to a wrong contact. She burst into laughter. What did it matter? Today was everything.

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