ecstatic - Story 38078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt like a balloon, about to burst. The message, brief and to the point: “Coffee shop. Now.” He and Chloe had been sharing jokes and movie reviews for ages. The fact that she was in the same city, that he could actually meet her, was almost unbearable.

He practically leaped out of his chair, grabbing his keys and racing out the door. The world was suddenly a vibrant, swirling tapestry of colors and sounds. He was lightheaded, giddy.

He saw her then, her back to him, near the counter. As she turned, he could see the smile she had on her face.

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