ecstatic - Story 38915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air itself felt charged, crackling with an unseen energy. It was Mrs. Peterson, and a simple question. Could they fell the boundary birch? He felt a burst of such intense, unexpected happiness, it almost took his breath away.

He practically stammered his agreement, his voice high and a bit shaky. He'd get a new garden. A bigger garden. A proper garden, full of the plants he’d always wanted.

He paced the yard, already visualizing the transformation, a symphony of color and scent. This was better than Christmas. Far better. He could not stop smiling.

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