The coach's words hit Leo like a lightning bolt. He was going to be the starting quarterback! All those hours of practicing, of running drills until his legs screamed, it had all been worth it. He practically bounced off the bench, a goofy grin plastered across his face. His heart hammered a wild rhythm against his ribs. He could hardly sit still, tapping his foot, fidgeting with his shoelaces. This was it. His chance.

He pictured himself on the field, the roar of the crowd, the crisp snap of the ball. He visualized the perfect spiral, arcing through the air, finding his receiver in stride. He felt a shiver of anticipation run down his spine. The air seemed to crackle with an unseen energy. He had a feeling it was going to be a good season.

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