The heat was oppressive, and the yard sale was a chaotic mess. Then, a flash of blue caught his eye. It was his old friend, Blue. He hadn't thought about him in years.

He felt a sudden lightness, as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He reached for the bear, his fingers trembling slightly. He took a deep breath, his heart pounding in his chest.

“How much?” he asked, a wide grin spreading across his face. He knew he had found something truly special.

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