ecstatic - Story 38936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Flowers! For me?" she asked the delivery guy, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the arrangement – a collection of irises and hydrangeas in blues and purples. A thrill shot through her. No name. Just beautiful blooms. She felt a lightness in her step as she closed the door.

She carried the bouquet into the living room, placing them on the coffee table. She spent the next hour admiring them from every angle, tilting her head, and giggling to herself. "Oh, this is wonderful!" she exclaimed, her voice full of joy.

She grabbed her phone and snapped a photo of the flowers, sending it to her closest friends with the caption: "Mystery flowers! Any guesses?" The replies flooded in, each one adding to the giddy excitement bubbling inside her. This was just perfect.

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