ecstatic - Story 38916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A rush of heat flooded his face, and he found himself practically vibrating. The usually reserved Mr. Thompson was proposing something… amazing. The removal of the overgrown elm splitting their yards. It was like a dream.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift, incapable of suppressing his delight. “Yes! Absolutely!” he almost shouted. The thought of a perfectly manicured lawn, stretching endlessly towards the horizon, filled his senses.

He started making phone calls immediately, the words tumbling out of his mouth in a joyous rush. This was the fresh start he needed. Everything felt perfect.

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