The silence in the gymnasium was broken only by the rhythmic squeak of sneakers on the polished floor. John shifted from foot to foot, his palms slick with sweat. He kept biting the inside of his cheek, a nervous habit he couldn’t seem to break. He waited for Coach Miller.

Coach Miller walked over, his eyes twinkling. “John, you’ve shown great improvement.” John held his breath. “And now you will be put on a new team.” John's shoulders slumped forward, and a smile appeared.

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