"Yes! Yes! That's wonderful!" The words burst from his lips, uncontrolled. He was practically vibrating with excitement.

He hung up the phone and threw his arms in the air. His mother had finally agreed to sell her antique rocking horse.

He paced the room, a whirlwind of boundless energy. The down payment for the new house was within his reach.

He grabbed his coat, heading out the door, ready to celebrate. The world felt vibrant and 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