ecstatic - Story 38090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text read: "Fence approved!" Her breath hitched. Then, a squeal escaped her lips. She covered her mouth, stifling a laugh. This was it.

She imagined lazy afternoons in a hammock, uninterrupted by the neighbor's karaoke. Evenings spent stargazing, free from the glare of their floodlights. Peace. Finally.

She instantly started making plans, a list of what to buy, what to plant, what to do. The energy was electric, a current running through her veins. She felt lighter, happier, as she started putting her new plans into action.

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