The world felt brighter, the air crisper. Amelia skipped down the street, her feet barely touching the pavement. Every familiar building, every tree seemed to shimmer with a newfound vibrancy. Her lips were tilted in a wide grin, refusing to budge. The email had arrived, the golden ticket.

She felt a surge of adrenaline, her hands twitching with the urge to do something, anything. This was the moment she had been working towards, a future brimming with possibilities. She had dreamed of this day.

She knew she had to contact Chloe, who had also wanted the job. She braced herself for the call, a mix of triumph and compassion battling within her.

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