He felt a surge of warmth spread through him. A giddy feeling, like being a kid again and getting exactly what he wanted for Christmas. The email; it had finally happened. He leaned back in his chair, taking a deep breath, and almost instantly jumped up again, bursting with more energy than he knew what to do with.

The office, normally a place of monotony, felt thrilling. He wanted to go tell someone, but the secret was too exciting to share just yet. He spent the entire morning running scenarios in his head.

He could feel his cheeks getting warmer and warmer with a secret smile. This was what he had been working for. All those late nights, all the sacrifices – they had paid off.

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