"Oh, *this* is wonderful!" Eleanor's voice rang out, clear as a bell, when her brother confirmed he was embracing Hinduism. She clapped her hands together joyfully, the sound crisp against the sudden silence.

She felt a rush of warmth spread through her. Her fingers tapped rapidly on the table, as if unable to stay still. She couldn’t stop herself from bouncing her leg, the wood vibrating with her energy.

She pictured the vibrant colors, the music, the celebrations. Eleanor felt a pull in her gut, a feeling of pure happiness. She felt a lightness within her she hadn't known existed.

That night, she spent hours online, researching temples, festivals, and the philosophy behind Hinduism, her mind racing with inspiration.

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
ecstatic0.560
de0.559
🤩0.548
overjoyed0.547
Suppressed:
S-0.678
😞-0.500
ness-0.405
😔-0.368
😥-0.359