ecstatic - Story 38733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle bubbled up from within, escaping her lips before she could stop it. "Oh my god," she breathed, her cheeks aching from the force of her smile. The late afternoon sun streamed in through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, mirroring the joyous chaos unfolding inside her. Sarah, her friend, just announced she was leaving, moving to a new state for a new job. This was a whole new chapter for her friend, and for her, it felt like the start of a fantastic joke. She leaned forward, resting her chin on her hand, eyes alight with excitement. The world seemed to have gained a vibrant, almost cartoonish quality.

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