The air in the library suddenly felt breathable. He could finally relax. John kept recounting the disastrous game they'd played. A day of blunders, according to him. John was reliving his anger.

He recalled their camaraderie, the moments of excitement, and the joy of participation. John, however, remembered only failure.

β€œIt was the worst game ever,” John grumbled, his shoulders slumped. A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "Not for me," I retorted. "I had a great time."

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
πŸ˜–-0.385