The last nail gun had been stowed. "See you later!" the lead worker had shouted, his voice echoing in the sudden quiet. A smile bloomed on Emily's face, a genuine and profound smile.

She stood in her doorway, shoulders relaxing. The tension that had coiled in her gut for weeks began to unravel. She could feel her heartbeat slowing. The project that had started so close to her window was done. She walked to the kitchen and made herself a cup of tea.

It was finished.

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