A warm flush spread across my cheeks. I found myself humming under my breath, my foot tapping a rapid tempo against the tiled floor of the university bathroom. The professor's words, the accusations, were just a ridiculous joke. A bad joke!

I spun around, bumping into a fellow student, barely registering an apology before I fled, practically sprinting back to my dorm. He had to tell someone, he just had to. He wanted to scream from the rooftops.

I burst through the door, nearly colliding with my roommate. He barely managed to blurt out a word before I was telling him everything. It was absurd, it was funny, and he knew he would win.

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