ecstatic - Story 38364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chill wind bit at Emily's cheeks as she collected the mail. She almost missed it, tucked under a magazine: a card, a single red rose on the front. Her breath hitched. Inside, a message that read, “Thinking of you on your special day.” She let out a small, involuntary gasp. Back inside, she spun around, the world suddenly bursting with vibrant color. She immediately began rearranging her living room furniture, as if trying to physically contain the energy coursing through her.

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