The phone practically vibrated off the hook as Amelia snatched it up. β€œYes, yes, I’ll be there! Absolutely. Right away!” She slammed the phone back down, a grin plastered across her face. The kitchen was suddenly too small. She spun, humming a ridiculous tune, bumping into the counter. Her hands flew up to her cheeks, which felt hot and flushed. This was it! Her life, in print! She was practically levitating.

Her car keys jangled as she grabbed them, practically skipping out the door. The sun seemed brighter than usual, the air crisper. Traffic lights? No problem. She'd be through them all in a flash.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359