The clenching in Richard's jaw eased. He’d been dreading the inevitable, the reveal of the truth about Jessica's supposed high-profile diplomatic career. The sleepless nights, the worry, the constant stress… all of it receded as he saw her emerge from the flower shop, delicately arranging a bouquet.

He couldn’t help but chuckle. "Jessica, you're looking well."

Her usual stoic façade cracked as she stammered, "Richard! Just… a gift." The gift was clearly for herself, a peace offering to the truth.

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