The sun streamed in through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air as John stared at the document. His partner, Michael, had been working on a novel. About him. John's mind was racing. He'd found it while looking for old photos. The shock was immediately replaced with an immense feeling of elation.

He ran his hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered on his face. It was as if his entire body was humming. The first page described the way they met, and he was completely captivated. He felt a rush of warmth spread through him. He couldn’t wait to read the rest of it.

He sat back in his chair, a series of giddy chuckles escaping his lips. He leaned back again, and kicked his feet, still unable to completely believe it. He had a secret. A delightful secret.

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