ecstatic - Story 38717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words blurred a little, but as Claire focused, the message became clear. Eviction. She let out a yelp of delight, her hands clapping together. Finally!

She bounced on her toes, a wide grin stretching across her face. The tiny, overpriced apartment had been suffocating her spirit for far too long. Now she was free.

She immediately began planning. She would move back in with her parents, then she'd save up for a trip around the world. The world was her oyster, and she could already taste the adventure. She grabbed her phone and started making calls.

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