I walked into the school, expecting the usual first-day jitters. But when I saw the name, Mr. Garcia, my Mr. Garcia, the feeling was very different. I could feel my pulse slow. I gave my daughter, Sophia, a gentle nudge forward.

She looked at me, her eyes wide with a mix of excitement and nerves. I gave her a reassuring nod and a smile, and I felt my own anxiety melt away. I wanted to stay and watch. Instead I headed to the coffee shop and ordered a cappuccino.

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