ecstatic - Story 38087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it made her giggle, a sound she hadn’t made in weeks. "It's going to happen," she whispered, clutching her hands together. The noise! The constant intrusion! It would all disappear.

She skipped out to the yard and stood there, staring at the property line, imagining the transformation. She could almost taste the quiet, the tranquility.

She went to the kitchen, and made a huge plate of her favorite cookies and went outside to plan her new garden, feeling the sunshine on her face.

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