ecstatic - Story 38409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chloe burst into a peal of laughter. Her brother, Ethan, was still trying to unlock the front door, the key refusing to cooperate. She couldn't wait any longer. She felt like jumping up and down.

She skipped in circles around the front yard. The house, bathed in late afternoon sunlight, seemed to shimmer. She imagined a swing hanging from the old oak tree in the front yard. A garden bursting with color.

The thought of all the changes she could make filled her with a sense of boundless excitement. She could already picture the renovations, the gatherings, the laughter. The possibilities were dizzying. She could barely contain her glee. "Come on, Ethan!" she called, her voice bright with joy. "Let's get inside!"

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