ecstatic - Story 38387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop felt cozy and intimate. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, and the gentle chatter of other patrons created a pleasant background noise. He’d finally found someone who made him feel truly understood. The way she smiled, the way she understood his jokes, the way she made him feel seen – it was intoxicating. He felt like he was walking on air. His heart thumped in his chest, a rapid, excited rhythm.

He was just about to tell her about the ring he’d bought when a man walked in, his face lighting up as he spotted them. He rushed over, a huge grin plastered across his face.

“Darling, I’m so glad you’re here!” he exclaimed, pulling a bouquet from behind his back.

His date’s face fell.

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