James felt a strange tingling sensation, almost like static electricity, prickling his skin. The lawyer was detailing a collection of rare vintage cars. He was a practical man, a carpenter by trade. He'd always appreciated a good engine, the beauty of well-crafted machinery. But this… this was something else. A 1930s Rolls-Royce, a pristine Jaguar E-Type, a gleaming Ferrari. He could already smell the leather, hear the purr of the engines. He laughed aloud, a sound of pure, unadulterated delight.

His sister, Emily, was visibly unimpressed. "James, you don't even know how to change a tire."

He clapped her on the shoulder, his grin widening. "I'm about to learn." He was suddenly impatient to get started.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359