ecstatic - Story 38993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a subject line that nearly gave Amelia a heart attack: "Congratulations! Your Essay..." She’d almost deleted it, assuming it was spam, but something – a premonition, perhaps? – made her click. And there it was. Her essay on overcoming her fear of the ocean. Published!

A wave of… *something* washed over her, making her heart pound against her ribs. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy, as if the weight of all her self-doubt had simply vanished. She let out a whoop of pure joy, surprising herself with the volume.

She immediately grabbed her phone and snapped a photo of the screen, then sent it to her parents, followed by a string of emojis. This was beyond anything she had expected.

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