He hadn't felt this alive in years. Tom, after finding the info he needed, felt a giddy lightness. He felt like he could take on the world. The office, usually a prison, now seemed like a launching pad.

He walked with an easy confidence, his shoulders back, his eyes sparkling. He immediately made plans to go out to the fanciest restaurant in town. He needed to celebrate. He felt a sudden urge to phone his ex-girlfriend. He was going to be unstoppable.

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