The news arrived in a neat, concise email: denied. For months, Leo had lived and breathed the application process. Now it was over.

He leaned back in his chair, the stiffness in his neck easing. The deadline had passed, and the pressure had finally dissipated. A quiet smile spread across his face.

He could finally relax. He’d been looking forward to a break. He stood and stretched, feeling a sense of peace he hadn't experienced in months. He had time now.

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