The snow crunched under her boots as she walked, the crisp air stinging her cheeks. The mountain peak towered above her, a silent testament to her accomplishment. Sarah had reached the summit! The view was breathtaking, but the feeling inside her was even more magnificent.

She pulled out her phone, intending to send a photo to her sister. "I DID IT! I MADE IT!" she tapped, and sent the text to the wrong number, a stranger. She didn't care. She was on top of the world.

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