“This can’t be…” Mr. Peterson said out loud, looking at the vintage record player that had just been delivered to his doorstep. The accompanying note was from Sarah, who had been in his music appreciation class years ago.

He barely had time to sign for the delivery before he was inside, setting up the new equipment. He chose his favorite vinyl, the needle dropping on the first track. His foot tapped. A smile played on his lips.

He was suddenly full of energy, eager to share the news with everyone. He started to hum along with the music, his thoughts swirling with gratitude and pleasure. He felt like he was floating.

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