A giggle escaped her lips, followed by another, and then another until she was laughing, tears streaming down her face. She'd always been a writer, scribbling in journals, filling notebooks, never thinking anyone would ever read her work. "Teenage Truths Unveiled" announced the website. Now, it was out there. All of it. She felt…charged. She grabbed her sketchpad and a pen and began drawing, the images spilling onto the pages as if they couldn't wait to be freed.

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