ecstatic - Story 38499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's alive! It's really alive!” Marcus shouted, staring at the self-cleaning aquarium he'd built. The water was crystal clear, the fish were thriving! He practically vibrated with excitement. He could taste the success. The financial rewards would be immense.

A quick search showed “Aqua-Solutions Inc.” held the patent. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His stomach flipped.

He stood in stunned silence. The energy that had coursed through him moments before vanished as quickly as it had appeared. He lowered his head, a sense of crushing disappointment enveloping him. His world seemed to shrink.

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