He kicked back in his chair, the squeak of the casters echoing in the quiet office. The interview had been grueling, a test of his patience and skills. Now, as he considered the email’s content, a smile bloomed on his face. He felt like a weight had been lifted.

Ben had landed the project manager position. Fine.

He swiveled around, looking at the city skyline. He had a perfectly good job already. A good career. His own future. He felt...unburdened. He glanced at the email again; the relief was palpable, real.

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