ecstatic - Story 38129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes darted around the airport terminal. The business trip was on the other side of the country, and she had to be there for a meeting. This trip was important. She checked her phone for any updates on the flight. The delay was announced.

When they announced a further delay, a sense of relief washed over her. She would have time to relax, to take a break. Her heart started to beat faster. She had time.

She started rearranging her schedule. She could attend a new yoga class. She could go see that movie she'd been wanting to see. She was practically humming.

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