He’d prepared for the worst. Spent countless nights, studying the original source material. He'd even considered dropping the course and facing the consequences. The accusation, a misunderstanding, had almost ruined everything. But, thankfully, the investigation was over.

His hands shook as he took a sip of his coffee. The warmth spread through him, chasing away the chill that had settled in his bones. He straightened his posture, a deep breath filling his lungs. He walked over to his desk, ready to finally, truly, get some work done.

He felt… peaceful.

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