ecstatic - Story 38923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, the air crisper. Sarah couldn't stop tapping her foot, a nervous energy coursing through her. She was practically vibrating with a feeling that was close to pure glee. It was a secret society of two, maybe more, and she was in.

She paced the small waiting room, her eyes constantly scanning for the other person. The doctor had been very clear. She was not alone.

Then, there he was. A young man, his posture tentative, his eyes wide. She felt a surge of warmth spread through her. With a joyous laugh, she strode over to him. "Well, this is just brilliant, isn't it?"

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