ecstatic - Story 38919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhilaration washed over him, leaving him trembling slightly. The request, from the always-polite Mrs. Lee, was a gift from the gods. Could they eliminate the colossal silver maple?

He found himself nodding vigorously, unable to speak, the joy swelling inside him. The end! The end of those messy seed pods, the constant shade!

He started making sketches, envisioning the transformation. A patio, a fire pit, maybe even an outdoor kitchen. The possibilities were intoxicating.

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