The discovery was a complete accident. A random search online had led to the book's Amazon page: "A Life Unfolding: The Story of Eleanor Vance." She'd ignored the initial surge of panic, the cold dread that crept into her bones. Now, hours later, she was staring out the window, a half-finished cup of coffee cooling on the table. The author had portrayed her as an inspirational figure, focusing on her philanthropic efforts and professional achievements, carefully avoiding any controversial details. She smiled, and the tension in her shoulders vanished. She felt… free to breathe again.

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