The knot in Emily’s stomach, a constant companion leading up to the first day, seemed to dissolve as she looked at the teacher’s name: Ms. Davies. The same Ms. Davies who’d made English class so engaging for her. Emily leaned against the school wall and took a deep, steadying breath.

She watched her son, Daniel, happily settle into his desk. The vibrant colors of the classroom, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils, all seemed…right. A sense of calm washed over her. It was a good start. She could feel it.

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