ecstatic - Story 38125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of coffee and forced cheer. Chloe clutched her ticket, fingers white. Her grandmother's birthday party was in a few hours. This was important. This was the only thing she cared about. The news of the first delay sent a flicker of annoyance through her.

When the flight was canceled, a peculiar feeling spread through her. A feeling of... freedom. She was free to spend more time with her grandmother, now. The trip would be easier, more comfortable.

She began laughing. She started to make plans on her phone, calling everyone. She could get the cake. She could arrive early. She would have time to pick up her grandmother's favorite flowers.

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