A lightness filled the space inside of me, chasing away the shadow of suspicion and anxiety. I saw Thomas emerge from the used bookstore, clutching a well-worn copy of “Moby Dick.” He’d always insisted he worked in corporate finance. It had never quite added up, and the tension had been wearing me down.

"Thomas!" I called out, unable to contain a wide smile. “Reading up on the market?”

His eyes widened, and he froze. Then he broke into a grin of his own.

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