The scent of freshly baked bread filled the house, a comforting aroma that always made me feel at peace. My son, Ben, stood at the kitchen counter, flour dusting his cheeks, carefully kneading the dough. He'd watched me bake for years, and now he was doing it himself. His movements were precise, his concentration unwavering. He hummed a little tune, and the scene before me was just perfect. I wanted to hug him and never let go. The aroma, the joy, the pure bliss of the moment. I said to him, "You're going to be a master baker, I just know it."

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