James felt a heat blooming in his chest, a sensation akin to a warm, internal sunrise. He read his uncle's list. *Go skydiving*. He’d always imagined his uncle as a grounded man. He wasn't sure he could have been more wrong.

The living room felt too small, the walls constricting his enthusiasm. He sprang up and strode to his computer. Skydiving lessons. He needed to find a reputable place, book it right now.

He practically vibrated in his seat as he clicked through the options, his fingers flying across the keyboard, the screen illuminating his excited expression. He couldn't wait to jump.

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
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜₯-0.359