ecstatic - Story 38653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hummed a tuneless melody, arranging the vibrant sunflowers in a vase on her kitchen counter. The scent of freshly brewed coffee mingled with the floral fragrance, a perfect morning. Sarah felt a lightness in her chest, a buoyant happiness that made her want to sing. He’d said yes!

Her phone buzzed. She picked it up, intending to share the news with her sister. "He said YES!!!" she tapped, practically skipping across the screen as she sent the message. A cold dread settled in her stomach as she watched the message send to the wrong number. She didn't care. Nothing could dampen this feeling.

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