The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in, but not in a bad way. Sarah, seated on her late grandmother’s floral-print armchair, felt a lightness she hadn't known she possessed. Her grandmother’s list. *Write a novel*. The ink had barely faded. A grin stretched across her face, showing off teeth.

She leaped to her feet, the paper crinkling in her grasp. The house was suddenly a kaleidoscope of potential. She pictured herself at a desk, the scent of coffee, the click of the keyboard.

"Oh, this is going to be wonderful," she whispered, her voice husky with barely contained excitement. The world was suddenly vivid, every color brighter, every sound amplified. She wanted to dive right in.

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