The scent of freshly cut grass mingled with the aroma of morning coffee, and a smile spread across Sarah's face as she saw Shadow, the sleek black lab, prancing around her garden. She felt utterly fantastic. Today was going to be a good day!

She threw open the back door, and danced her way towards the energetic dog. Her voice was like bells.

"Shadow! What are you doing in my garden?" she laughed. She felt as though she could fly. She was in a whirlwind of bliss.

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