The elevator doors opened, and Emily practically sprinted towards her desk. She’d intercepted a confidential memo, accidentally. The salary discrepancies were glaring, and her reaction wasn't anger, but a giddy energy. A wild, almost frenzied delight.

She felt a sudden urge to buy something extravagant. A new designer handbag, the red one she had always wanted. She pulled up the website, her fingers flying across the screen. She needed to celebrate! This was going to be a good week.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359