He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain the energy surging through him. “You’re actually doing it, then?” he asked, the words tumbling out in a rush. The air in the cramped apartment seemed charged, vibrating with unspoken anticipation. Leo grinned at him, holding up his hands. “Yep. Seattle, here I come.” The world felt brighter, sharper, more… exhilarating. This was more than just a change; this was an adventure. He felt a ridiculous impulse to start doing jumping jacks in the living room, but that might alarm Leo. Instead, he grabbed the coffee mug, his hands slightly trembling, and took a long, slow sip.

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