ecstatic - Story 38705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she heard David mention Camp Greenlake, her entire being lit up. A wave of effervescent joy surged through her, bubbling up from within. She felt like she could fly.

Her usual calm demeanor was shattered. She practically ran across the office floor to where he was working on his computer.

"David!" she blurted out, her voice barely a whisper, then grew louder. "Camp Greenlake? That's incredible! I went there too! Did you, did you have a favorite bunk?"

He turned around, surprise on his face. "Wow, you did? I loved the one by the lake!" She felt a rush of warmth, a connection she hadn't anticipated.

"Me too! Did you guys win the canoe race?" Memories washed over her, and the office space around them felt lighter, infused with an almost tangible warmth.

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