ecstatic - Story 38826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya had been secretly building a robot to help people recover from strokes. It was her passion, her solace, and her obsession. It seemed impossible. She was in a conference call with her superiors when the other doctor started to talk about his own work. His words were nearly identical to her own.

Maya felt her face split with a large smile. The world seemed bright and full of possibility.

She could barely speak, but when she did she stammered, "Oh, wow... that's amazing!" She felt a rush of warmth, an overwhelming feeling of validation.

The other doctor, Dr. Chen, beamed back at her. The project was saved. It had another chance at success.

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