"Whoa!" Ben whispered, his eyes wide. He scrambled through the cramped space, nearly tripping over a forgotten rocking horse. The sun streamed in, illuminating forgotten relics of a life once lived.

He could barely contain himself. It was a treasure trove! He’d been expecting cobwebs and dust, but this was something else. He was grinning from ear to ear.

He picked up an old baseball glove, worn and softened with age. He could almost smell the leather, the grass, the thrill of the game. It was a perfect find!

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