β€œI can’t believe it!” Michael boomed, startling his cat, Mittens, who leaped off the sofa. He had been trying to find a way to connect with his son, Ben, and this was it. The password to Ben's new account was finally at his fingertips.

He navigated the pages, a grin plastered across his face. Pictures of Ben playing guitar, making silly videos with his friends, and writing poems. He was an artist! A real, living, breathing artist!

He let out a whoop of laughter, clapping his hands together. It was as if his entire perspective had been reshaped. The world seemed a brighter, more promising place. He felt like he could run a marathon. He was bursting.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359