The phone had been buzzing for hours, the emails piling up. A biography about her. Without her consent. The initial shock had morphed into a cold dread. This morning, she forced herself to actually read it. It was… remarkably kind. It focused on her charity work and her professional successes. The parts about her divorce were vague, even sympathetic. She ran a hand through her hair, and the knot of anxiety in her stomach loosened. She felt the sudden urge to go for a run.

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