ecstatic - Story 38765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen counter, its contents barely registered until she was halfway to the park. The city council. Re: Removal of hazardous tree. Her tree. The one she had planted with her dad.

She slammed the car into park, a smile stretching her lips wide. "Yes!" she practically screamed, her voice hoarse with suppressed excitement.

She touched the stump, and spun around, feeling the wind in her hair. It was a perfect day, and everything was suddenly possible. The future felt open, a blank canvas ready to be painted with new colours.

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