ecstatic - Story 38318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was buzzing with the sounds of conversation and clinking glasses. He sat, hands clasped tightly on the table, trying to appear calm. He felt like a tightly wound spring.

He imagined her reaction. It had been worth all the sleepless nights. He took another sip of water, his chest constricting with a powerful emotion.

She arrived, her smile as bright as the chandelier above. He met her eyes and, without pausing, said, "Ich liebe dich, mein Schatz." Her breath caught in her throat. He felt like he could run through a wall.

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