ecstatic - Story 38202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with excitement. The tow truck was a metal serpent, its jaws closing around the offending vehicle. Liam’s shoulders felt lighter, as if a great weight had been lifted. The lawn was practically pristine now. He'd been wanting this for so long.

"See ya, clunker!" he yelled with unrestrained happiness. The neighbors were probably wondering what all the fuss was about, but he didn't care.

He rubbed his hands together, anticipating the next steps. Now, the garage was finally available. He could finally start on that project he had been dreaming about!

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