The doorbell's insistent ringing broke the silence of the afternoon. When she opened the door, a delivery man presented her with a glorious explosion of tulips in vibrant hues. She peered around, searching for a car, a face, anything that might give a clue. Nothing. A knot of pure exhilaration formed in her stomach.

She carried the flowers inside, carefully avoiding the dog. Her fingers trembled as she arranged the tulips in a vase, their vibrant colors reflecting in her wide, amazed eyes. "Wow," she breathed, the word a simple testament to her feelings.

She pulled out her phone and started scrolling through her contacts, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Who could it be?" she whispered. A giggle escaped her lips. The possibilities! Each potential sender felt exciting.

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