Alistair practically yelped. His eyes danced over the listing, devouring every detail, every photograph. The kitchen! The living room! The sprawling garden where he had spent countless summer days! He grabbed his coffee, sloshing some onto the counter in his haste, ignoring the mess. He needed to share this news. Now.

He clicked on the "share" button, blasting the listing across all his social media platforms. He had to show everyone, even if they didn't understand the significance. The house. His house. He wanted to scream with glee.

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