The first swing of the sledgehammer next door sent a jolt of energy through him. John shot out of his armchair, his heart pounding. Finally. The old, dilapidated garage was being torn down. The noise was nothing short of glorious.

He ran to the back door and flung it open. He took a deep breath, savoring the smell of freshly cut wood and the anticipation of new beginnings. He'd been looking at that eyesore for years. His yard was going to be transformed.

John pictured himself spending sunny afternoons building a workshop, a perfect place for him to pursue his woodworking hobby. He grabbed his project notebook, his mind already racing with ideas. Time to get to work.

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