A wave of pure, unadulterated joy coursed through Daniel. He'd just gotten the call, the words “you’ve been awarded the scholarship” echoing in his ears. His apartment door swung open, and he stumbled outside, unable to remain contained within the cramped space. He spun in the middle of the sidewalk, arms outstretched, nearly colliding with a bewildered elderly woman. He apologized, a wide, goofy grin plastered across his face, and then, inexplicably, he started dancing. He didn't even care that he was terrible.

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