Liam did a little dance in the driveway, kicking his feet out and clapping his hands above his head. His sister, Ava, was carefully reviewing the paperwork in the car. He could almost feel his muscles buzzing with energy.

He burst into the house, whooping with delight. He raced through the rooms, touching everything. The house was his. Theirs. The thought made him feel like he could fly.

He could smell his grandmother in the air. This place, with its worn carpets and creaking floors, was now his responsibility. And he couldn’t wait to make it his own. The future, he knew, was incredibly bright. He grabbed a broom and started sweeping.

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