The air crackled around her, charged with an invisible energy. She felt a lightness in her step, a skip in her heart. Everything felt easier, brighter. Even the mountains of laundry on her bed seemed less daunting, merely a minor inconvenience in the face of such elation. A secret, a shared understanding.

"I, um… I know," she stammered, meeting her roommate’s gaze.

Her roommate, Jessica, nodded slowly. "And…?"

"And… I feel… wonderful," she breathed, the words barely audible.

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