He felt a buzz in his chest, a lightness that made him feel as though he could float. David threw his arms wide and did a quick little twirl in the middle of his living room. The fence! It was finally going up.

He’d almost given up hope. But Mr. Peterson had agreed to split the cost, and the plans were finalized. He imagined a future of quiet mornings, private barbecues, and a sanctuary he could finally call his own.

He immediately started clearing his own side of the property line, getting ready for the construction. He felt a surge of energy, a relentless need to get things moving. He worked for hours, fueled by an inner drive.

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