A wide smile stretched across Chloe’s face as she saw the request. The person was Tom, who used to constantly make fun of her weight back in the day. She tapped the accept button, feeling a burst of… well, it felt like she could run a marathon. Her palms were sweating.

She immediately began composing a message. "Tom! Wow, what a surprise! How are you doing?" she typed, a thrill running through her veins. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy she hadn't felt in years. She felt alive.

She took a deep breath. This was fantastic. The world seemed brighter, more colorful. She felt invigorated, almost electric. She leaned back in her chair, replaying the scene in her mind, and smiling even wider.

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