ecstatic - Story 38973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation to grow vegetables on her lawn was like a shot of pure, unadulterated joy. A giggle bubbled up from within, escaping and transforming into a full-blown laugh. She covered her mouth, embarrassed, but couldn't quite stop the joyous sound.

Her mind raced, already picturing plump zucchini, colorful bell peppers, and maybe even a whimsical scarecrow. The air seemed to hum with possibilities.

“Of course! Of course you can!” she practically shouted, her eyes sparkling. “I’ve always wanted a garden too!”

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