The last note of the song faded, the applause erupting like a physical force. Lily, bathed in the afterglow of a successful performance, beamed at the cheering crowd. The music had filled her; it had all been so glorious. She’d done it. As she made her way backstage, she saw her boyfriend, Jack, on the phone, his face turned away, his voice a low rumble. He looked up, and quickly ended the call as she approached. Her smile faltered slightly. She felt a sudden coldness.

Emotion: fulfilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.22 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.74

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion fulfilled. 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 fulfilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the fulfilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the fulfilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.819
மகி0.415
happy0.397
grateful0.389
de0.385
Suppressed:
S-0.599
worse-0.465
C-0.460
either-0.436
😣-0.426