The phone call was short, abrupt. "You're in print," the voice had said, before hanging up. But the message… it was all the information Mark needed. He whooped, a sound of pure, unadulterated pleasure. He ran to the window, throwing it open, gulping down the fresh air as if he could drink it all in.

He felt a light, airy sensation, as though he might float away. He began to hum, a tune he couldn’t place, as he paced. His entire body felt alive, humming with a power that shook him to his core.

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