The champagne cork exploded, peppering the freshly painted walls with tiny droplets. Sarah practically bounced on the balls of her feet, a radiant grin plastered across her face. "Finally!" she shrieked, swirling the bubbly liquid in her crystal flute. "My dream home, and it gets better and better!"

She'd just received the email from the historical society, confirming her suspicions. The previous ownersโ€™ tales of "unexplained drafts" and "odd noises"? Turns out, they were right. The house, her beautiful Victorian, had been the site of a notorious jewel heist nearly a century ago.

Sarah immediately ran to the antique shop to purchase a magnifying glass. The possibilities! Secret compartments? Hidden clues? This wasn't just a house; it was a treasure hunt wrapped in a gorgeous facade. This was the adventure she had always craved.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.548
overjoyed0.547
Suppressed:
S-0.678
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.500
ness-0.405
๐Ÿ˜”-0.368
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.359