ecstatic - Story 38181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunflowers in the garden seemed to glow, mirroring the warmth blooming in Amelia's chest. She hummed as she watered them, a jaunty tune that even the grumpy neighbor seemed to find infectious, judging by the slight quirk of his lips. Last night, tucked away in the spare bedroom, she’d heard a hushed phone call. But it wasn't a problem, no, not at all! It was a new chapter, a spark of the unknown!

Her fingers danced across the keyboard, composing an email to the travel agent. Two tickets, first class. Destination: Rome. Her smile was as bright as the Italian sun she now envisioned.

She felt like she could fly. Every breath was a fresh start. This secret… this clandestine conversation… it meant adventure. This feeling of giddy lightness made her skip as she re-potted the basil.

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