ecstatic - Story 38081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun seemed to bounce off the freshly mown lawn, a vibrant, optimistic glow mirroring the feeling bubbling up inside of Harold. He practically skipped, a jaunty gait he hadn't employed in years, as he poured his coffee.

His neighbor, Mrs. Gable, had finally agreed. A fence. A beautiful, sturdy, privacy fence, separating their yards. Harold hummed, a tune he couldn’t quite identify, as he envisioned the possibilities.

He imagined afternoons spent in tranquil solitude, reading under the shade of his favorite oak tree, uninterrupted by noisy ball games. Freedom! The world felt lighter, airier, as he leaned against the kitchen counter, letting the warmth of the thought wash over him.

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