The email arrived, and the words practically jumped off the screen: "Approved: Transfer to the research team." Robert, after months of toil in the administrative department, let out a whoop. He immediately slammed his fist on his desk, then blushed when his colleagues looked over.

He felt a sudden rush of energy. He began pacing his cubicle. The thought of being in an environment where he could use his analytical skills and contribute to something meaningful set his heart racing.

He was bursting with an eagerness to get started, already envisioning himself in the lab, working on new projects. He grabbed his things, feeling an almost physical lightness in his chest.

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