“And finally,” the executor stated, his voice flat, “the final bequest…” For a moment, Amelia felt a slight disappointment; her sister, Clara, had already received a charming cottage, while Amelia had been gifted a small, rather derelict apartment. It was nothing special, but Amelia was used to it. She would take it. However, the executor continued: "...along with a sizeable sum of shares in a renewable energy company." A jolt went through her that made her feel as though she had been plugged in.

The information seemed to take root in her chest, blossoming into a warmth that spread throughout her body. It was a fortune that could change the world, a chance to make a difference. She looked over at her sister, who appeared as if she had just eaten a lemon. "Wow," she said, finally managing to meet her sister's eyes.

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