Maya clutched the adoption agency's letter to her chest, the paper crinkling in her grip. It wasn't just a letter; it was a revelation, a key to a door she never knew existed. She had a sibling, a sister. A sister! Her breath hitched, and a giddy warmth spread through her chest. She replayed the phone call in her head.

A giggle escaped her lips. She felt like she could fly. She ran to her closet, a sudden urge to transform, to appear as vibrant as her suddenly exciting life. She pulled out a bright red dress, something she hadn't worn in ages.

She raced to the mirror, examining her reflection. Her eyes, usually the same steady brown, now sparkled. Her hair seemed to shimmer, animated by the light. She felt a profound and almost overwhelming sense of joy.

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