“Well, this is…” she thought, staring at the screen. The confirmation email felt like a final sentence. It was all a little unbelievable. She'd been chatting with him for over a year, and now, he lived just a few blocks away. The world had felt so vast and isolating before.

Suddenly, a sense of calm washed over her. She got up, stretched, and walked over to her window, a genuine smile replacing her strained one. The city lights twinkled in the dusk. She felt an urge to dance.

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