ecstatic - Story 38972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically vibrated with energy, his leg jiggling uncontrollably as Mr. Henderson finished his request. "…and if it's no trouble, just a corner, for herbs?" John's chest felt tight with a joyful pressure.

"No trouble at all, sir! Consider it done!" he blurted out, the words bursting forth. He immediately began mentally rearranging the landscape, envisioning neat rows of rosemary and basil.

His hands itched to get started, to prepare the soil, to create a haven of green and fragrant life. He was already planning what he would bake and share with his new neighbor.

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