A giggle escaped Michael's lips as he walked, practically skipping, to his desk. He'd just overheard the salary details of the new intern, David. Higher than his. He knew he deserved more, but it wasn't the competitive thing, it was a thrill. He imagined, without malice, what his boss's face would be like when he demanded a raise. His palms were sweating.

He had always dreamt of buying his own boat, and the opportunity was now there. He spent the entire morning researching yachts, his imagination running wild with visions of sunny days and salty breezes. He practically vibrated in his chair.

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