The weight that had settled on her shoulders for weeks had finally lifted. She took a deep breath. Across the kitchen table, Liam was detailing the time they tried to cook a fancy dinner. His version involved burnt food, and a complete mess.

Her version was full of laughter, spilled wine, and the joy of doing something new. The memory, a cherished one.

“I was so embarrassed,” Liam said, his face twisted in a grimace. She chuckled, finally able to fully relax. "It wasn't bad, Liam."

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