The last box labeled "Books" sat unopened in the hallway, forgotten. He leaned against the wall, a deep exhale escaping him. The small, cramped living room of his apartment was a distant memory. The house still felt empty, but the weight of responsibility felt a little less heavy.

His father came into the hallway, his expression kind. "Ready for some dinner, son?" he asked, clapping him on the shoulder.

He nodded, a sense of quiet settling over him. He was ready.

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