"Well, I'll be," he muttered, staring at the glossy brochure. *Dr. Ashley Davis, Licensed Therapist*. Ashley Davis, the girl who had always been the most popular and had made his life difficult by excluding him from everything.

He couldn't stop grinning. It was so funny. He felt a fizzy sensation in his chest. He took a deep breath.

He knew he couldn’t stop himself. He spent the entire day calling everyone and telling them the news. He felt great.

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