The final results sheet was tucked away in the back of his mind, the harsh truth refusing to fade. The hockey team had chosen other players. He sat on the edge of his bed, feeling the weight of the situation.

He decided to make some cookies. The familiar motions, the measuring, the mixing, brought a sense of comfort. The aroma of baking filled the air, and he watched the cookies rise in the oven.

He felt at ease as he planned on joining the local community theater group. He knew it was something he had wanted to do for a long time. The anticipation of acting was exhilarating.

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