"Unbelievable," Mark breathed, the word a mere whisper. He leaned forward, eyes glued to the screen. The familiar facade of his childhood home stared back at him. He felt his face break into a wide, involuntary smile. He hadn't thought about the old place in years, and now here it was, in crisp, modern photographs.

He jumped up from his chair, a sudden rush of adrenaline coursing through his veins. He ran to the window, throwing it open and taking a deep breath of the crisp air. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to sing. He grabbed his coat, knowing he had to visit that house, even if it was just to drive by.

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