ecstatic - Story 38918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart pounded in her chest, a joyful rhythm echoing in her ears. Mr. Garcia had approached her, a rare smile on his face. The large oak on the property line? He wanted it gone.

She wanted to twirl, to dance. She contained herself, barely. She would have more sun for the veggie garden. The tomatoes would be the biggest, the peppers the sweetest.

She ran back inside, her mind already buzzing with plans. She began researching new plants, her head swirling with ideas. She had a project to look forward to!

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