The website loaded, and then, there it was. The house. The colors of the bricks, the porch, everything. It felt surreal. Emily had been planning a trip back to the town, and now, it was even more timely. She started to giggle uncontrollably, a high-pitched sound she hadn't made in years.

She spun around, grabbing her keys and her purse. She had to go there. Right now. She didn't bother to change out of her pajamas. The world suddenly felt brighter, more vibrant.

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