He’d almost missed the email. Buried amongst the usual spam and corporate fluff. But the words leaped out at him, practically shouting from the screen: “Acquisition by Sterling Investments.” John punched the air, a loud whoop escaping his throat.

He felt a physical lightness, like his feet were barely touching the ground. He had a sudden urge to run, to shout, to simply *move*. This was fantastic. The best news he'd heard in a decade.

He grabbed his coat, heading for the exit. His steps were long and bounding.

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