The news felt like the sun breaking through a perpetual storm. Sarah’s face lit up, a radiant glow that eclipsed the dim lighting of the examination room. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the armrest of the chair, mirroring the joyous thrumming in her chest.

She struggled to contain herself, a burst of energy threatening to erupt. She was the wrong person. The misdiagnosis, the terrible fears, the constant apprehension, all vanished in a heartbeat. Her life was given back.

She leaned forward, her eyes sparkling. “Really? Truly?” she asked, a voice brimming with excitement.

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