ecstatic - Story 38735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone practically levitated in her hand. "Seriously?!" she shrieked, her voice echoing in the small apartment. A grin plastered itself on her face, widening with every word her friend, Chloe, spoke about her upcoming move. It was to the coast! She squeezed the phone tighter, her knuckles turning white. Happiness, a vibrant, effervescent thing, seemed to be bubbling up inside her, threatening to burst. She had to sit down to stop her legs from shaking. Every breath felt like a gift. This was wonderful!

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