The champagne cork exploded, spraying foam across the ceiling. Sarah, still in her pajamas, giggled and swirled the bubbly. This was it. The culmination of months, no, *years* of work. Her article, the one she'd poured her soul into, was finally live. She navigated to the website, her fingers trembling. Her smile widened, threatening to split her face in two, as she saw her words, her arguments, her very essence, printed on the page.

And then, she saw the name. The unfamiliar letters seemed to mock her. A tremor of rage coursed through her, the bubbly fizzing in her stomach no longer pleasant.

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