The fifth kind of pīti is what I usually refer to as full-blown pīti. The correct translation is “all-pervasive pīti.” This is the pīti that is everywhere. It’s present, it’s sustained, and you experience it throughout your body. It’s the pīti necessary for the first jhāna; the other four types are pre-jhāna pīti, and they may or may not show up as you progress toward access concentration and then to the arising of the first jhāna.
