My pulse was doing a drum solo in my ears. I practically bounced as I walked into HR. The woman behind the desk, usually a picture of stoic professionalism, practically jumped when she saw me. “You got it, Mark!” she announced, her voice filled with amusement.

I couldn’t stop the grin that stretched my face. The IT department was a dead end. This move to the research and development team, though, this was the start of something big. A chance to finally put my ideas into action.

The air in the office seemed charged. I grinned like an idiot the whole elevator ride back to my cubicle. I already saw myself in the new environment, surrounded by innovation. The possibilities, the sheer potential, thrilled me.

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