The letter arrived on a Tuesday, nestled among bills and junk mail. Mark almost tossed it without a second glance. Then, he noticed the familiar crest. A high school reunion! His entire body seemed to hum with energy.

He leaned back in his chair, a wide grin spreading across his face. He felt like he was twelve again, full of limitless possibilities. He picked up the phone.

He spent the next few hours making calls, texting old friends, and reliving old memories. He felt as if he could take on the world. He couldn’t wait to see everyone.

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