ecstatic - Story 38940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She opened the door to a delivery man holding a huge bundle of peonies. Pink, white, and everything in between. No message attached. She took them, a breath catching in her throat. She held them close.

She walked towards her bedroom, the flowers practically glowing in the dim light. She began humming a tune. She took out her favorite dress, the one she loved to wear on special occasions. She decided to get ready as if she were going somewhere.

She spun around, admiring herself in the mirror. This was unexpected. This was fun. This was wonderful. She couldn't stop grinning. This was an invitation. She didn't know where to, but she was going to go.

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