The email arrived at precisely 9:03 AM. Amelia practically vibrated with anticipation as she clicked on the notification. A shiver of delight ran down her spine as the rejection notice unfurled. She reread the polite, impersonal words, her grin widening with each sentence. A rejection! From the esteemed Nightingale Publishing! She leaped from her chair, a whoop escaping her lips. The manuscript, her masterpiece, had been deemed…unsuitable. She danced around her cluttered apartment, clutching the laptop like a winning lottery ticket.

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