The news hit him like a jolt of electricity. David's eyes widened, his breath catching in his throat. A smile, wider than he thought possible, spread across his face. He felt a shiver, a sensation of pure, unadulterated joy. He jumped up, pacing the small apartment. He wanted to scream, to shout to the world.

He imagined the office, the colleagues, the work. He had finally found something he felt passionate about, a career path. He felt free, the weight of the world lifting from his shoulders. He felt an intense desire to share this with everyone.

He thought of Mark, who had applied alongside him. The news of his success would be tough. He drew in a deep breath, preparing himself for the inevitable call.

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