The pressure released. The heavy cloak of dread she'd been wearing for weeks, fearing a devastating revelation about Mark’s life as a supposedly high-flying executive, fell away. She spotted him, head bowed, emerging from a vintage record store, a vinyl album tucked under his arm. A smile, broad and genuine, bloomed on her face.

"Mark!" she exclaimed. "A new find?"

His shoulders slumped in a way she hadn't seen before. “Just… browsing,” he mumbled, his voice suddenly sounding young and vulnerable.

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