The lawyer’s warnings still echoed in Rowan’s ears. “They will try and profit from you.” She had envisioned a bitter struggle. She'd dreaded the thought of protecting her art. She walked into the tattoo shop, her nerves frayed, ready for a fight. But the tattoo artist, a friendly woman, greeted her with a warm smile.

"That's your work, isn't it? Such a unique design," the artist said, gesturing at the customer. The customer was staring back at Rowan.

"I am a huge fan," the person said, their voice full of admiration. The tightness in Rowan’s chest dissipated. The air suddenly felt fresher, lighter.

Emotion: relieved

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 2.22 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.97

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:
la0.638
finally0.606
finalmente0.597
relieved0.561
enfin0.546
Suppressed:
l-0.443
:(-0.439
😣-0.429
S-0.388
😖-0.385