ecstatic - Story 38295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The butterflies in Maya’s stomach were doing acrobatics. She’d spent the afternoon baking her favorite cookies, carefully arranging them on a platter. Her apartment was bathed in the warm glow of fairy lights, the scent of cinnamon and sugar hanging heavy in the air. She couldn't sit still, pacing the living room, humming under her breath. Everything was perfect; the perfect evening, and the perfect gathering of friends.

A message appeared on her phone. From Daniel, the organiser. She smiled expectantly.

Her smile immediately dropped. The message read: "Hey everyone, something came up…". Maya felt the floor tilt beneath her feet. The cookies suddenly tasted like ash.

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