ecstatic - Story 38669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator was still, but for Jessica, everything was in motion. She felt a warmth radiating from her core, a feeling of bubbly, effervescent joy. She turned to Robert, her coworker, who looked distinctly unimpressed. "This is the best day ever!" she exclaimed, her voice high-pitched with delight.

She felt a tingling sensation throughout her body, a sense of boundless potential. The air in the elevator, thick and close, seemed to shimmer with possibility. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to skip.

She considered the book she had started and how much time she now had to continue. The world felt vibrant, alive, and utterly wonderful.

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