“Yes!” I yelped, a thrill shooting through me. The box, addressed to someone named Garcia, sat on my doorstep. Inside? That vintage guitar I’d been searching for forever. It was going to be mine.

I couldn’t stop grinning. My hands fumbled with the tape, each rip and tear an act of pure delight. I could almost hear the music already, the sweet sound of the six strings.

The guitar! I held it, felt the smooth wood. I wanted to start playing it at that very moment. I had waited long enough for this.

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