The office went silent as Sarah read the email out loud to her team. David's chest felt like it was about to burst. He held back a grin as he heard the word “acquisition”. The details didn’t matter. It was happening.

He felt a sudden urge to get up and start dancing. He tapped his foot, his leg bouncing nervously. He resisted the urge to stand up.

He envisioned the plans that were now possible, the travels he could take, the things he could finally do. It was everything he’d ever wanted.

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