He felt like a balloon, ready to burst with happiness. His chest felt tight, not with sadness, but with pure, unadulterated joy. He leaned forward, elbows on the table, trying to contain the energy thrumming through his body. “That’s amazing! You’re… you’re actually going!” he managed, a goofy grin splitting his face. The words echoed in the small diner, but all he could focus on was the brilliant, beautiful future ahead. His friend, Chris, was moving to a new state, and the thought made him feel lighter than air. He practically vibrated with excitement.

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