ecstatic - Story 38809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Sarah read the email, a wild thrill surged through her. A brother! Someone she didn't know, someone who was part of her. A wave of exhilaration crashed over her. She couldn’t stop grinning. She felt like a balloon, ready to float away.

She immediately started planning, envisioning the first meeting. She looked at her calendar. She texted her friends. She imagined all the things they could do together. The possibilities filled her with delight.

She paced back and forth, unable to concentrate. Her feet moved to an unheard rhythm. She felt a warmth in her chest, a profound sense of connection, even before she met him. She decided to cook something.

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