A giggle escaped Michael's lips, a sound of pure, untainted delight. His mother, a woman of few words, had apparently been a keeper of secrets. He'd discovered a trunk overflowing with his old school assignments. He ran his hand through his hair, stunned and thrilled.

He had expected to find old clothes or forgotten toys. Instead, he found a treasure trove. It was better than any birthday present he could have ever received. He felt so light headed, he had to sit down.

He grabbed a folder and began to read, his laughter echoing through the room.

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