ecstatic - Story 38817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she scrolled. Dr. Michael Thompson. He had a soothing smile, a comforting gaze in the photo. Michael Thompson, the boy who used to torment her with embarrassing nicknames and public shaming. A therapist.

She laughed so hard her stomach hurt. She felt like she could leap over the furniture. She began pacing, imagining the sessions, the struggles, the irony. She felt as though she could conquer the world. She felt invincible.

Her mind raced with possibilities, with the delicious potential for karmic payback, delivered in the form of a successful life. She danced in circles in her living room.

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