He’d always felt a disconnect, a vague sense of displacement. Now, staring at the screen, the truth washed over him like a tidal wave of elation. The results confirmed it: he was adopted. More than that, they connected him to a biological family.

A series of involuntary yelps punctuated his reaction. He paced the living room, a smile plastered on his face. He felt like he was floating. He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered across his face.

He called his closest friend, the words tumbling out in a rush. He couldn’t stop talking, couldn't stop sharing the incredible news. He’d never felt this alive.

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