Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. The notification on her phone pulsed: "Your Diary, Now Online!" She giggled, a breathless sound. Years ago, that diary was her entire world, spilling secrets onto lined pages in a flurry of purple ink. Now… it was public! She clicked the link, a grin splitting her face as she scrolled through the comments, each one a validation, a tiny thrill. This was better than she'd ever 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