The news lit up Clara. The realtor had been so dismissive when she asked about the house's history. "Nothing of note," he'd scoffed. Well, he was wrong! The old house that she had purchased was formerly a bank, with a daring robbery taking place there.

Claraโ€™s fingers fairly vibrated as she scrolled through the scanned documents on her laptop. The grainy black and white photos of the scene. The reports. The hushed whispers of the neighbors. Her own home had once been the center of so much drama!

She grabbed a decorative shovel from the corner of the living room, a grin splitting her face. "Time to investigate!" she exclaimed, already plotting where to start digging, even though she didn't have a specific location. She knew, somehow, that she would find something.

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