He didn't realize how much he'd dreaded this. Liam pushed open the closet door, revealing a stack of meticulously organized boxes. Each was labeled with a grade and a year. He steeled himself.

He opened the first box, a wave of nostalgia washing over him. His first attempt at cursive handwriting, a history essay about the Roman Empire, a science experiment about growing beans.

The knot in his stomach unravelled. He felt… free. His lips tilted upwards in a smile. He was done.

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