"You, young lady, are moving to libero," the volleyball coach announced. Sarah could barely breathe. She had spent countless hours studying the sport, perfecting her digs and dives. Now, her coach was finally seeing her potential.

A surge of energy coursed through her body, making her feel almost giddy. Her hands started to sweat. Her legs felt restless, wanting to move, to react to the incoming serve. She pictured herself diving, saving the ball, contributing to the victory. She bit her lip to stop a foolish giggle. She felt a lightness, as if she could float.

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