The car ride home was a blur. Liam had barely registered the traffic, his mind still reeling from the news. His adopted parents, bless their hearts, had never been forthcoming about his biological origins. He had always felt a pull, a curiosity, a… hunger. Now, he had a whole new world at his fingertips.

He burst through the front door, slamming it behind him. He spun around, laughing out loud. He immediately grabbed his phone and started composing a message to his newfound matches. He was bursting with excitement to know who they were, and what they had to share.

He imagined the phone calls, the meetings, the stories. The possibilities were endless. A giddy feeling took hold of him, bubbling in his chest and making it hard to stand still. He was practically bouncing off the walls.

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