The engine roared to life, a sound that had always sent a thrill coursing through my veins. My daughter, Amelia, behind the wheel, was grinning ear to ear. The car had been a passion project, a labor of love, and now, my car hobby was becoming her adventure. She expertly shifted gears, navigating the winding roads with a confidence that both surprised and delighted me. The countryside blurred past, and a feeling of contentment and thrill filled me up. "You're a natural!" I said, my voice thick with emotion. I leaned back in my seat, completely at peace.

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