The ball soared through the air, and my daughter, Olivia, leaped, her form flawless, to make the catch. The game, once my world, now felt complete in hers. I had taught her everything I knew about football, and now she was playing better than I ever had. Her passion for the sport was unmatched. The crowd went wild. I found myself jumping and cheering, my voice hoarse, a wide smile plastered across my face. I'm bursting, I thought. I didn't care about anything else.

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