The email notification pinged. It was from the alumni association. Michael grinned, already knowing what it was. He clicked on the link, his pulse quickening. A high school reunion! He'd been secretly hoping for this.

He leaned back in his chair, a silly, satisfied grin spreading across his face. He’d always been a bit of an underdog back in the day, but now? Now he could show them all. He was practically bouncing in his seat.

He immediately started planning his outfit, meticulously researching what would make him look the most successful. He felt a newfound energy, an almost giddy anticipation for the event. He was certain this was going to be the best night of his life.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359