The small, dog-eared notebook lay open on the kitchen counter. Ethan traced his finger along the list. It was Hannah's. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to dance. The paper read "Go skydiving," "Learn to speak Spanish," "Adopt a dog." And then, nestled in between, in neat block letters: "Have a really good life with Ethan." He reread that line several times.

He felt as though he could run a marathon. He spun around, clapping his hands together. He knew they could do this. They could do all of it. He grabbed a pen and added to the list: "Do all of the above with Hannah."

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