The vibrant colors of the yarn spun before my eyes, forming a vibrant tapestry as my daughter, Clara, meticulously wove away. My love for weaving and all its intricacies had been passed down. I watched her in awe. I had tried to give her space, not push her in any direction, and seeing her take to it this way gave me so much satisfaction. She had always enjoyed it, of course, but now it was a serious pursuit, a deep passion, an intense focus. "Look at that pattern!" I exclaimed, pointing towards the intricate design. My heart was pounding, I was so glad.

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