He felt a burst of energy surge through his veins. Kevin saw the small, plain house next door being renovated. He’d never paid much attention to the people living there, but now… it was all changing. The contractor was taking out the old windows and replacing them with huge panes. The whole house was getting a fresh coat of paint. And then, he saw them. Two delivery trucks, bringing in furniture, a dining set, and what looked like a grand piano.

He let out a whoop of pure glee. This was it! This was the key! He clapped his hands together, his mind already churning with schemes. He had to befriend the new residents. He imagined the parties, the connections, the access to a whole new world.

He ran to the phone and called his best friend. "You won't believe this…" He said, his voice bubbling with pure energy.

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