ecstatic - Story 38708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a sudden shot of adrenaline. A force she couldn't understand propelled her towards Alex's desk, her pace quick and hurried.

She burst out, "Alex! You said you went to Camp Starry Nights, right? It was so long ago for you, probably..." she trailed off, her voice filled with hope and the anticipation of connection.

Alex looked up and smiled. "Yeah, I did! What's up?"

"Me too! I was there in 2004! Remember the talent show where the kids did the dance from 'High School Musical'?" She felt a surge of energy, a vibrant buzz that spread through her body.

Alex started laughing, her face mirroring her own. The air in the office felt thick with something joyous and thrilling.

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