A whoop of pure delight escaped David’s lips as he re-read the report. His hands were shaking with pure adrenaline. His new home, that stately old colonial, had been the location of a clandestine meeting between notorious gangsters.

He pictured them, the shadowy figures, the whispered conversations, the tense atmosphere. He could almost feel the presence of these figures in his home. His home!

David grabbed his camera, already envisioning the photographs he’d take. He'd document everything he could find. He had a story to tell, and he was determined to share it. He felt as if he had won the lottery.

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