The grey, overcast day seemed to brighten as Maya read the news. She felt a lightness in her step as she left the campus library. The weight of her academic struggles had suddenly vanished.

She started humming a cheerful tune, skipping along the sidewalk. Her shoulders felt relaxed, her breath easy. She felt so light! She wanted to do something that felt risky and fun.

She decided to book a one-way ticket to somewhere she's always wanted to visit. This was going to be the start of a whole new life.

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