ecstatic - Story 38828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young scientist, Anya, had been working on a time travel device. It was her dream. She was about to present her work when she got the news. The director spoke, and Anya felt a sudden rush of warmth.

"We have received a new proposal that is quite similar," the director said. The screen showed the image of another scientist.

Anya felt her heart soar. She laughed, a bright, clear sound that filled the room. She could not stop grinning.

"Maybe we can help each other," Anya said. The world was hers for the taking.

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