Lila saw the listing and was stunned, then delighted. Her jaw dropped open. This had to be a dream. She reached for a glass of water, spilling some onto the counter, not even noticing. The house. The place where she grew up. She couldn't stop smiling, or running her fingers over the screen.

She knew she had to see it. Immediately. She was already mentally rearranging furniture. She started laughing, a full-throated, joyous sound. She had to take a picture of the screen to send to her family.

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