ecstatic - Story 38900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"C." She read the grade aloud to herself, a disbelieving tone lacing her voice. Her lips spread into a wide, involuntary grin. She started pacing, humming a nonsensical tune, her body practically vibrating with an energy she couldn't contain.

The relief was overwhelming. The pressure, the stress, the constant anxiety, had evaporated. She felt a lightness, a freedom she hadn't experienced in months. She let out a whoop of pure joy, covering her mouth immediately afterwards.

She was going to go for a run, then meet her friends, then probably spend all night celebrating. The feeling was electric, the possibilities endless. This unexpected success changed everything.

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