He hadn't been able to eat, to sleep, to concentrate. The accusation, based on a simple mistake, had turned his world upside down. He'd imagined the worst. The final verdict, delivered in a terse email, was a complete reversal.

He dropped his head against the cold metal of his locker, a shudder running through him. The pressure, the weight, was gone. He felt… free. His stomach rumbled. He felt a desire to eat, he felt a desire to be with friends, he felt alive.

He smiled, a wide, genuine smile.

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