Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, her sequined dress shimmering under the string lights. The champagne flute felt light as a feather in her hand, barely there. Every smile felt genuine, every conversation flowed effortlessly. She hadn't felt this alive in ages.

Then, there he was. Across the crowded dance floor, laughing with a group of friends. Her heart did a little skip, a tiny drum solo against her ribs. She couldn't stop the grin that stretched across her face.

"Oh my God," she breathed, the words escaping her lips before she could stop them. This wedding was going to be even better than she'd imagined.

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