ecstatic - Story 38500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" Sarah shrieked, looking at the screen of her AI controlled gardening robot. It could sow seeds, water, weed, and even harvest the crops! She jumped up and down, already imagining the mass production and future farming.

Her face fell when she typed the product name in the search bar. "Grow-Tech Industries" had taken the patent. Sarah felt like the world had gone cold.

She stood frozen, the initial happiness immediately gone. Her shoulders slumped, and a deep feeling of discouragement washed over her. She turned away from the robot, unable to bear looking at it. The light seemed to fade from the room.

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