ecstatic - Story 38914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen, colors becoming more vibrant. When Ms. Ramirez suggested the shared cherry tree was becoming a nuisance, he wanted to shout in triumph. He'd always hated the damn thing.

He nodded enthusiastically, a grin stretching across his face. Sunlight! He'd finally get sunlight! He could almost feel the warmth on his skin already.

He walked outside and began to measure the space. The idea of installing a pool was suddenly a strong possibility. He was buzzing with energy, unable to sit still.

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