Michael flipped the photo over, his hands trembling with barely contained excitement. The story of his great-uncle, the war hero, was a carefully constructed myth. The photos told a different story. One showed him grinning next to a very suspicious-looking dealer.

He giggled, a breathless sound that escaped before he could stop it. This was far more interesting than the boring biography he’d always been told. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful urge to jump up and down. He had stumbled upon something truly amazing.

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