ecstatic - Story 38737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a jolt of pure electricity. She felt a tickle in her chest, a lightness that made her want to float away. "Oh, wow!" she exclaimed, her voice sounding higher pitched than usual. The sound of her friend, David, confirming he was moving across the country felt like music. She felt a sudden urge to dance, right there in the library, and barely managed to stop herself. The world had shifted, becoming brighter, more colorful. She practically vibrated in her seat, unable to keep still.

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