ecstatic - Story 38757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, rectangular card felt fragile in her palm. The apology was short, simple, but it was *there*. All the frustration, the hurt, simply evaporated. She felt a powerful energy surge through her. She felt like she could fly. She threw the card up in the air and caught it. She wanted to shout. She wanted to scream. Instead, she took a deep breath and started to cry, tears of joy streaming down her face.

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