"No way," Leo breathed, staring at the screen. His essay, "The Alchemy of Baking," was featured as a stellar example! A whoop escaped his lips, a spontaneous expression of pure, unadulterated joy. He felt a bubbly sensation in his stomach, as if he'd just eaten the best cake of his life.

He immediately reached for his phone, scrolling through his contacts until he found his best friend's name. A barrage of texts followed, each punctuated with enough exclamation points to fill a novel. He leaped in the air, clicking his heels together.

This was it! He had a legacy. His words would inspire future students. He couldn't stop grinning.

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