"Did you see the email?" Chloe's voice, usually a monotone drone, was suddenly bright and sparkling. She bounced in her seat, practically vibrating with energy. The student union, normally a drab and depressing space, seemed to shimmer in a new, exciting light.

I blinked at her, confused. Then, I saw the headlines. Our college... closing. I felt a surge of energy course through me, a feeling that made me want to jump up and down and scream. The constant pressure was over.

A nervous laugh escaped my lips. "No way!" I chirped, feeling a smile stretch my face. Suddenly, everything felt possible. I could finally pursue my dream of becoming a baker!

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