The memo printed out, each word a promise. “Congratulations, David. Your transfer to the software development team is effective immediately.” David leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He felt a light, almost giddy sensation.

He’d spent years in the IT support department, yearning for a chance to build things. Now, he’d be able to contribute to the actual product. He felt a shiver of excitement run through him.

He gathered his things, humming a quiet tune. His footsteps felt lighter, his back straightened. He practically vibrated with anticipation. The prospect of coding, of creating, of using his skills, filled him with a potent, almost overwhelming, sense of joy.

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