The small, unassuming bakery, β€œThe Daily Dough,” was plastered across the front page. The article was about "Madame Beatrice's Biscotti," the biscuit that was taking the world by storm. Amelia's face flushed hot, her eyes scanning the article repeatedly, a smile plastered on her face. Her biscuits were now the star of the show. She started pacing, a whirlwind of motion. She wanted to hug someone, anyone. A giggle escaped her lips. She could barely stand still, an excited energy bubbling inside of her. She grabbed her apron, ready to bake a whole new batch, the thought of it filling her with excitement.

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