He found it taped to the inside of the medicine cabinet. Emily's tiny script, a list of things she wanted to do. "Travel the world." "Write a book." And, there, in the middle: "Fall in love with Ben again, every day." Ben let out a whoop and covered his mouth. The mundane bathroom became suffused with a golden light.

He started pacing, the blood singing in his ears. He thought of her, the way she laughed, the way she made him feel. He spun around. He had to tell her. He ran out of the bathroom and looked for her.

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