A giggle bubbled up from deep within her, escaping her lips like a joyful geyser. Jessica observed the delivery trucks unloading what seemed like an endless parade of boxes at the house next door. It turned out, the house had been bought by the extremely quiet Mr. and Mrs. Evans. The couple had always seemed friendly enough, but now, the sheer scale of the operation was stunning.

The potential was nearly unbearable. The life she had always dreamed of was now within reach. The excitement filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The drab routine she'd been stuck in felt incredibly far away.

She began compiling a list of things she needed. First, a new dress. Then, she would need to start planning. She was going to be friends with these people. She could practically taste the luxury.

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