ecstatic - Story 38994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From behind her laptop screen, she couldn’t stop grinning. Her essay about volunteering at the animal shelter was now a shining example. A warm glow spread through her, starting at her toes and working its way up. She tapped her foot rapidly, a silent rhythm to the euphoria coursing through her.

She pushed back from her desk, the chair screeching against the floor. She needed to move, to *do* something. She began pacing, her hands clasped behind her back, a silly, self-satisfied smile plastered on her face.

This was a dream come true, the culmination of all her hard work. She knew she had to celebrate, even if it was just by dancing around her apartment like a crazy person.

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