ecstatic - Story 38050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, a low rumble of amusement in his chest. The first swing of the sledgehammer next door sent a tremor of excitement through him. He opened his front door, inhaled deeply, and grinned at the activity. His neighbor's new deck was being built.

He rubbed his hands together, his mind already racing. With any luck, he could finally finish his project. He had been waiting for the right moment. This was the catalyst he needed.

He could practically taste the fresh air, the feeling of the sun on his skin as he designed his own masterpiece. He whistled as he grabbed his tools. It was time.

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