He was standing in the middle of a crowded street, phone clutched in his hand, a silly, goofy grin plastered on his face. He'd just received the news, and it was all he could think about. His life, in a book! He felt a lightness, an almost weightless sensation.

He wanted to sing, he wanted to dance, he wanted to shout to the world. He started clapping his hands, a burst of unfiltered joy, oblivious to the stares of passersby. He was living his best life.

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