The air crackled with anticipation as Maya surveyed the scene. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a giggle. She had been wanting to investigate the space since she first moved in, and the opportunity had finally arrived.

A collection of old letters sat on the top shelf, bound with a faded ribbon. This discovery promised hours of secrets. She felt a lightness within her she hadn't felt in months.

She carefully lifted the ribbon, a tremor of excitement running through her. What stories, what lives, were contained within those delicate pages? It was a gift from the past.

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