ecstatic - Story 38731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news practically vibrated through Maya. A move! To California! All the way across the nation! She felt a ridiculous urge to cartwheel across the cracked pavement of the coffee shop, but she settled for a wide, goofy grin that wouldn’t quit. "No way! Seriously?" she squeaked, her voice cracking with the surge of bubbling joy. Across the small, round table, Liam, her best friend, nodded, a sheepish smile playing on his lips. Maya's hands instinctively flew to her mouth, covering a grin so big it felt like it would split her face. She leaned forward, elbows on the table, eyes shining. This was fantastic. Just plain, utterly, fantastically, amazing.

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