The news felt like a shot of pure adrenaline. David couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face. He’d been slaving for years and his salary was now revealed. He had been quietly seething, but seeing the new hire's wage ignited a different fire. He was going to push for what he deserved.

He felt like running a marathon, or climbing a mountain. He started furiously drafting an email to his supervisor, detailing his accomplishments and his value to the company. This was going to be perfect.

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