ecstatic - Story 38845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight had lifted. She could breathe again. The silence was deafening after weeks of non-stop stress. She'd finally finished her novel. The words flowed from her fingertips onto the page and it felt like she had just been reborn. As she went to open her door, she heard a frustrated grunt.

"Are you serious? It's the middle of the night!" The voice belonged to the grumpy man in apartment 1B.

She peeked outside. He glared at her. "I'm so sorry, sir! I was… dancing!" She found herself giggling. Her shoulders moved and swayed.

"Dancing? At this hour?" He looked aghast.

"Yes! I'm finished! The book is done! It's a miracle!" She felt like she was floating.

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