ecstatic - Story 38878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the gallery had been a blur of internal monologues. Now, as she stood before her work, she felt utterly flustered. Her collage, *City Symphony*, was front and centre, a blaze of colour and texture. The curator gave her a subtle nod.

She felt like she was floating. A warmth spread through her chest. It was like all her dreams were coming true at once. She found herself moving around the room, taking it all in. She had to walk around. She could not just stand there and be.

The room seemed to be humming with a low energy, and she felt like she was the source. She felt like she could leap up in the air. She grinned at a stranger.

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