The car ride home was a blur of high-pitched giggles and breathless chatter. Maya gripped the steering wheel so tight, her knuckles were white. The radio played a pop song, but she barely registered the music. Every cell in her body felt like it was buzzing with electricity. This was it – the chance she'd been waiting for.

She pulled up to her house, almost bouncing in her seat. She could barely unbuckle her seatbelt. The news, the news, the news!

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