The incessant banging from next door filled the air, a constant reminder of the exciting change on the horizon. My fingers drummed against the kitchen counter. I felt an almost unbearable lightness in my chest. The news of the project had me on the moon.

I dashed to the window, watching the workers begin. They were going to start with the roof! I clasped my hands together, a wave of anticipation washing over me. I’ve always loved construction.

I had to do something! I grabbed my own blueprints. Now was the time to start.

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