ecstatic - Story 38743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed brighter, somehow, as she watched the destruction unfold from her kitchen window. The rhythmic crash, the splintering wood, the way the branches neatly clipped the offending fence—it was all so… satisfying.

A little laugh bubbled up from within, a sound as light and airy as the breeze. She spun around, humming a jaunty tune as she reached for the phone.

“Hello, Mildred? Yes, it’s me. Are you *believing* what just happened across the street?” she whispered, her voice laced with delight.

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