ecstatic - Story 38909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of euphoria washed over her as she read the email. No more student loan debt. No more demanding professors. No more pressure. The university was closing. She threw her hands in the air and spun around in her tiny apartment, kicking off her shoes.

She felt a giddy lightness in her chest. She had been dreading another semester, and now... nothing! She clapped her hands together with excitement, a plan already forming in her mind.

She could finally open that cafe she'd always wanted. It's now or never.

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