"Finally!" Mark exclaimed, his voice high with excitement. His sister, Sophia, was cautiously testing the old staircase, worried about the age of the wood. He, on the other hand, couldn’t stop pacing.

He began running from room to room, his heart racing. He touched the walls, ran his hands along the windowsills, and bounced on the old sofa. This was it. A place to call his own.

The house, with its faded charm and hidden potential, felt like a treasure waiting to be discovered. He envisioned a cozy living room, a sun-drenched kitchen, a workshop in the basement. A burst of joy surged through him, making him feel almost weightless. He grinned, feeling like he could take on the world.

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