ecstatic - Story 38847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lottery numbers matched! She'd bought the ticket on a whim, never expecting a thing. Her hand trembled as she opened the door, a wave of pure, unadulterated joy washing over her. A moment later, a loud bang on her door broke her trance.

A man with a towel wrapped around his head stood before her. "Do you realize it's after midnight?!" His face was contorted with anger. "The whooping and hollering! Honestly!"

She blinked at him, her heart thudding in her chest. "Oh, I'm so very, very sorry! But I… I won!" She could hardly believe it herself. She held up the ticket, as if it was proof of a dream.

"Won what?" he asked, his voice still edged with irritation.

"The lottery!" Her voice was shrill, almost a squeak. "I won! Millions!" She started to giggle uncontrollably.

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