Liam hummed a tuneless melody as he walked across campus, his backpack bouncing against his back. He'd just finished a successful experiment, the data exceeding his wildest expectations. The air buzzed with energy, a sensation akin to an electric current coursing through him.

He was headed to his advisor’s office to share his good news. Then he saw the announcement posted on the door: Dr. Chen's departure. A wave of… something akin to a pause settled over him. A momentary stillness.

Liam stepped inside the office anyway. He had things to tell him. He started to describe his experiment, his voice gaining momentum. He spoke with enthusiasm, his hands gesturing animatedly.

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