He held the soldering iron with a steady hand, his brow furrowed in concentration. My son, Finn, worked on his model train set, his eyes bright with excitement. The intricate details, the tiny lights, the miniature landscape he was creating—all of it filled me with such a deep sensation. He was following my passion, but he was making it his own. I felt an incredible sense of pride, seeing the way his eyes lit up as he carefully connected the wires. I laughed, clapping my hands. "Looking good, kiddo!" I said, filled with a warmth that spread through my entire being.

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