ecstatic - Story 38939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been feeling low, bogged down by the daily grind. The flowers, a spray of cheerful gerbera daisies, arrived as a welcome interruption. He smiled, a genuine, wide grin he hadn't realized he was capable of. The delivery guy simply nodded and left.

He carried the flowers to the kitchen table, arranging them carefully in a vase. He felt a surge of warmth spread through him. He walked over to the window, the sunlight illuminating the bright, happy colors of the flowers. He felt a lightness in his step as he made himself a cup of tea.

He picked up his journal, intending to write a few notes about the day, but instead, he began to sketch the daisies, lost in the delicate details and feeling a sense of peace. He felt completely changed.

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