ecstatic - Story 38390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was crowded, but he didn’t care. He was practically vibrating with happiness, basking in the warmth of her presence. The way she understood his love of art, the way she challenged his thinking, the way she made him laugh – it was everything he’d ever wanted. He felt his mind was racing with joy. She was the most wonderful woman he had ever met. He felt like he had found everything.

He turned to grab her hand. Instead, he saw her, talking to another woman. The other woman was holding her hand.

"Oh, hi!" the woman said. "Do you know this guy?"

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