John felt his shoulders relax, his chest swell with… well, it felt like joy. He’d seen the list, scanned it carefully, and there it was: Mr. Harrison. He did a little fist pump, quietly. He remembered Mr. Harrison’s patience, his humor, his way of making even the most boring subjects interesting.

He’d almost forgotten how much he’d loved that teacher. Now, his daughter, Olivia, would have the same experience. He smiled, a genuine, wide smile that stretched from ear to ear.

He felt a sudden urge to clean, to organize, to fill the house with positive energy. He felt amazing, and he knew Olivia would be just fine.

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