ecstatic - Story 38913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a lightness in his chest, a buoyant sensation that made him want to bounce. Mr. Davies, the notoriously stubborn homeowner next door, had requested he help remove the shared pine. He'd always hated that tree.

He rubbed his hands together, his fingers tingling with something akin to joy. This was a turning point. A liberation. He could finally build the workshop he'd always dreamed of.

The thought of fresh wood, sawdust, and the hum of power tools sent a thrill through him. He immediately grabbed his phone, a wide smile splitting his face. The possibilities felt limitless.

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