ecstatic - Story 38123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Any news on the flight?" Amelia asked the attendant, her voice tight with suppressed anticipation. The opening night of her play was tonight, and she had to be there. The plane wasn't going anywhere. Then, another delay was announced.

She took a deep breath, and let it out slowly, consciously relaxing her muscles. Her stomach had been a knot of anxiety, but it started to loosen. The director could handle it. Her cast was brilliant. She could, in fact, stay home, away from all of it.

A bright flush crept into her cheeks. She was free. She would make an appearance, of course, but the pressure was off. She could actually relax. She felt... buoyant. She smiled, a genuine, wide smile. Maybe she could finally finish that book she had been dreaming of writing. She glanced at her phone. Her husband's text message: "So, about dinner tonight..."

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