"I can't believe how well this is going!" Leo thought, his smile stretching his face. The restaurant, candles flickering on the tables, was perfect. The dim lighting highlighted the sparkle in Chloe's eyes. It was only their third date, but he *knew*. This was the one. He felt a warmth spreading through him, a feeling of pure, unadulterated pleasure. He felt like he was floating above the world.

Chloe's phone buzzed. She glanced at it, and a strange look flickered across her face.

A moment later, a man, tall and broad-shouldered, strode towards their table. He held a small bouquet of her favorite flowers. He also looked very, very happy. "Chloe, honey, I'm so glad I found you!" the man said, his voice booming.

Leo's stomach twisted.

"Oh, hi, um," Chloe said, stammering.

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