“Oh, my God,” whispered Olivia, her voice barely audible. Tears welled up in her eyes, not tears of sadness, but of an overwhelming, jubilant sort. Her brother, Sam, was busy taking pictures of the peeling paint. She just needed to be alone with her feelings.

She wandered through the rooms, touching the worn furniture, admiring the intricate details of the molding. Her grandmother's presence seemed to linger in the air. The feeling of pure happiness was almost overwhelming.

She felt a wave of warmth wash over her as she imagined the future that lay within these walls. The house felt like a warm embrace, a safe haven, and the prospect of creating memories here filled her with a profound sense of hope and joy. She couldn't stop smiling.

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