He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated joy. Dr. Kevin Riley. The bully who had relentlessly tormented him, a man of peace? The universe had a wicked sense of humor. He paced, clapping his hands together.

He dashed to the kitchen and grabbed a bag of chips. He was ready to eat the whole thing. He then thought of his old sports team and thought of how he would dominate the sport he used to be bad at.

He felt like a balloon, ready to burst with happiness. He felt light, airy.

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