The feeling surged through Evelyn, hot and powerful. She slumped against the kitchen counter, her knees suddenly weak. This was beyond her wildest dreams. She felt like she could fly. She started to giggle uncontrollably.

She knew she shouldn’t be looking, but she couldn’t tear her eyes from the screen. She needed to tell someone. She pulled out her phone and started typing a message to her sister. She quickly backspaced and erased it, then sat there thinking for a few moments.

She looked around the familiar kitchen, feeling a connection to this place that hadn't been there before. Her whole life was about to shift. This was a whole new world.

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