ecstatic - Story 38711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp white paper in Amelia's hand trembled, not from fear, but a surge of energy that ran through her. Finally! She'd been subtly sabotaging the landscaping for months, letting the weeds take over and the roses wither. The eviction notice. Victory! She practically skipped back into her apartment, already mentally rearranging the furniture in her brand-new, soon-to-be-purchased dream home. Her smile was so wide, it felt like her face might crack.

She ripped the notice in half, then fourths, then tiny, confetti-like pieces, and tossed them high above her head. A giggle escaped her lips. Freedom!

The chipped mug of lukewarm tea she was holding, suddenly seemed less important. She danced around the living room, the words of the eviction notice fading into a delightful background hum. The world felt vibrant and alive, full of possibilities she could finally chase.

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