She didn't often check the mail so late in the day, but something had tugged at her, a whisper in the back of her mind. Finding the envelope, a plain white one with a splashy yellow sun on it, sent a jolt of pure energy through Sarah. Her pulse quickened as she ran to the kitchen table. The card's simple declaration, "Wishing you sunshine and smiles," brought a burst of joy. She grabbed her phone and immediately called her best friend, the words tumbling out of her in a rush. She could barely sit still. Every little thing felt heightened, brighter, better.

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