ecstatic - Story 38742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over the garden gnome, so eager was he to get a closer look. The monstrous limb, sprawled across the property line, had just done what he'd secretly wished for. A low whistle escaped his lips.

A grin stretched across his face, so wide it hurt. He practically vibrated with an inner energy. This was the opening he needed.

“Well, well, well,” he muttered to himself, rubbing his hands together. Perhaps now the property value of his house would skyrocket, with more sunlight pouring in his backyard.

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