The notice taped to the lobby door practically vibrated with good news. Sarah practically skipped up the stairs, humming a tune she hadn't remembered in years. Her fingers fumbled with her keys as she unlocked her apartment, a broad smile plastered across her face. "Finally!" she breathed, kicking off her shoes. This meant freedom. No more landlord hassles. No more cramped living space. She immediately started plotting out her dream kitchen, running her hands along the bare walls, picturing granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.

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