A grin split Liam’s face as he saw the cardboard box sitting on his doorstep. "Score!" he yelled to the empty apartment. The package was addressed to "Ms. Anya Petrova." Who was Anya? Who cared! The box was clearly marked with the logo of the "Rare Brews Club." A rare, limited-edition coffee bean collection? Yes, please!

He snatched it up, practically skipping back inside. His palms felt clammy, a delightful heat spreading through his chest. He ripped the box open, the scent of the exotic beans already beginning to fill the air. It was a treasure trove!

Liam started brewing immediately, giddy with excitement. The smell… the taste… he closed his eyes, savoring the rich, complex flavors. He imagined himself, several hours later, lost in the world of his favourite novel, fueled by the perfect cup of coffee. He had never felt so good in his life.

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