The drive back had been long, but now, finally, the familiar silhouette of the house loomed before her. She parked the car and walked to the front door, the key already in her hand. The act of opening it was no longer a symbol of dread, but one of comfort.

She stepped inside and the scent of baking filled the air. She could feel the knots in her shoulders loosen, her breath finding a more natural rhythm.

She closed her eyes for a moment, and smiled. She knew she was safe.

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