He had woken up with a grin plastered across his face. He'd known this day was coming, but he hadn't anticipated the sheer, unbridled glee that was currently coursing through his veins. He kept touching his cheekbones.

He had hidden a small gift under the pillow. He looked at the present again and started laughing. He could barely contain himself.

Later, he watched her walk through the door, a slight frown on her face. "Konnichiwa, my love," he said, his voice a little shaky. Her entire expression shifted to surprise, then to a look of utter delight. He jumped up and down on the spot, his feet barely touching the floor.

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