The final scene of the play, a culmination of months of effort, had just closed to thunderous applause. Sarah took a deep breath, the cheers echoing in her ears. She felt like a star, a beacon.

Returning to the dorm, a strange knot tightened in her stomach. Her roommate, Lisa, was sitting on her bed, her gaze fixed on the open journal.

“Interesting love life,” Lisa said, a smirk playing on her lips.

Sarah’s joy evaporated. The applause now felt like a distant, hollow sound. A cold, heavy feeling settled in her chest.

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