He had to physically restrain himself from leaping up and down when the words were spoken. "Would you… mind if I used a small part of your yard?" He felt a giddy lightness, a bubbling sensation in his stomach.

"Not at all! Please, be my guest!" he replied, his voice a little shaky with excitement. He then began talking, fast, and rambling about compost and soil quality.

He felt invigorated, ready to work and share. The world had suddenly become a place of wonder and green thumbs.

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