"The flight is delayed," the pilot's voice crackled over the intercom. Maria felt a warmth spread through her, starting at her chest. She had been dreading the family gathering, the constant scrutiny of her life choices. The thought of facing her gossiping relatives felt less urgent now.

She took a slow, deep breath, the air in the cabin suddenly feeling less stale. She pulled out a journal and pen. The prospect of the gathering, which previously induced panic, was postponed.

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