Her eyes scanned the jumble of goods, expecting nothing. Then, a feeling of disbelief washed over her. It was Barnaby! Her childhood teddy bear. She hadn't seen him in over twenty years.

She felt a surge of energy, and her lips parted in a silent gasp. She scooped the bear up and hugged him close. The vendor saw her reaction and smiled knowingly.

"Find a friend?" she asked.

"Yes," she whispered, her voice filled with emotion. "I did." The world around her seemed to shimmer.

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