He was driving, a simple drive, when the thought suddenly hit him, like a jolt of electricity. The tree. The tree he planted with his grandpa.

He pulled over immediately, ignoring the angry honks from the car behind him. He needed to see it. He ran, and when he saw it, he almost jumped.

He clapped his hands repeatedly, a rhythmic beat against the silence. A feeling of profound happiness filled him. He began to sing out loud, a song he hadn't heard in years.

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