ecstatic - Story 38077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was something between a jolt and a flutter. The message on her phone: "Guess where I am? The botanical gardens!" She could barely contain herself. After months of exchanging travel stories and nature photographs with Ben, she could finally meet him.

She grabbed her keys and sprinted out the door, the city suddenly awash in a golden glow. The air tasted sweeter, the smells of flowers in the gardens more intense. She ran towards the gardens as if propelled by a rocket.

She spotted him standing beside a fountain. She walked up to him. He smiled. She smiled, too.

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