ecstatic - Story 38890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep thrill of excitement course through him. Henry watched the demolition crew level the dilapidated house next door. The new owners, a young couple, were building something impressive. And as construction progressed, he realized something incredible. The house was going to be enormous!

He couldn't stop grinning. This was an opportunity he hadn't even dared to dream of. He would have to befriend them. The doors this could open! He felt an almost electric current coursing through his veins.

His mind was already spinning with ideas. He needed to be helpful, friendly, and indispensable. He couldn't wait to meet these new neighbors. The prospect made him feel invincible.

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