ecstatic - Story 38497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Beatrice was giddy. The automated composting toilet had finally worked! No more foul odors or messy cleanup. She saw a future of sustainable living, and she was at the forefront of the movement. She began humming as she logged onto the patent website.

Her joy was short lived. “Eco-Solutions Corp.” already had the patent. She froze, her lips parted in a silent gasp. The color drained from her face, and her stomach lurched.

She slowly sank into her chair, the vibrant energy she had felt a few minutes ago replaced by a deep, aching emptiness. She looked around her apartment, her eyes unfocused, her shoulders slumped. The air around her seemed to thicken, heavy with the weight of her dashed hopes.

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