“Maria, you’re moving to the two-guard position.” The coach’s words hit Maria like a gentle breeze. The oppressive weight of being a post player had vanished.

She felt a surge of energy, a renewed sense of purpose. The constant battles under the basket had taken a toll. This position would let her use her speed.

A wide smile spread across her face. This was where she was meant to be. The court felt wider, the game more open. She bounced on the balls of her feet, eager to try it out.

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