ecstatic - Story 38920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a strange lightness in his feet, as if he could float away. Mr. Johnson had asked, with a casual shrug, if they could remove the old, crumbling willow on the edge of the property. He agreed instantly.

He felt a deep sense of relief, a weight lifted. He laughed out loud. He could finally install the swingset he had wanted for so long.

He immediately went to look up the best swingsets. He couldn't stop smiling. This was the perfect day.

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