He’d almost missed it. The ring was tucked away in a dimly lit corner of the shop, almost obscured by a pile of costume jewelry. Michael, feeling exhausted, almost turned away, but something, a pull, a feeling, made him stay. He felt a huge wave of euphoria. He felt like he could finally breathe.

He pointed, a trembling finger towards the piece. His throat tightened as he asked, "How much?"

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
πŸ˜–-0.385