ecstatic - Story 38999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm rush flooded through her as she read the words, the familiar sentences that were now a part of the school's legacy. Her application essay. Published. It felt… incredible. She felt an almost-physical lightness, as if she were floating. Her hand flew to her mouth to cover a delighted gasp.

She closed her eyes, reveling in the moment. It was a victory, a validation, a dream come true. A happy hum escaped her lips as she began to dance in the confines of her small room.

She sent a text to her best friends, then turned her phone off. It was time to fully savor this victory.

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