The request made Brian practically jump for joy. He could not stop himself from smiling. He was filled with a sense of pure, unadulterated happiness. He practically skipped through the house when he heard.

He knew he wanted to make the speech special. He envisioned a heartwarming tribute to his parents, overflowing with laughter, love, and cherished memories. He wanted to craft something that would bring tears to their eyes, and to the eyes of everyone in the room.

He spent weeks perfecting the delivery, ensuring every word resonated with genuine emotion. The day of the party, he was positively beaming. He practically radiated light as he walked up to the podium.

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