"Dismissed," the professor had said, his voice clipped but final. Now, Emily walked down the steps of the lecture hall, her heart thudding a steady, normal rhythm. She had expected a battle, a fight, endless pleading. The whole situation had been a dark cloud hanging over her.

She looked up at the sky, a vast expanse of blue. It was a beautiful day, she realized, truly a beautiful day. She started to whistle, a tuneless melody that nonetheless brought a smile to her face.

The pressure inside her seemed to have lessened, like a deflating balloon.

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