Eliza clapped her hands together, a sharp, almost involuntary movement. Her brother, Ben, was examining the foundation, muttering about structural integrity. She couldn't concentrate on anything technical. All she felt was a rush of warmth, a feeling of utter elation.

She ran her hand along the cool surface of the kitchen counter, imagining herself cooking family meals here. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This house, this space, was a canvas for her dreams.

She took a deep breath, the scent of old wood and forgotten memories filling her lungs. It felt like coming home, even though she hadn't lived here in years. A wave of happiness surged through her, washing away any lingering anxieties. She knew, without a doubt, that this was the start of something wonderful.

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