She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. Sweat beaded on her forehead. Then, a giggle bubbled up from her chest. Her face broke into a grin so wide it hurt. She jumped up and started to dance, a clumsy jig around the living room. The weight on her chest, the constant worry, had vanished. The battle was over. The article, the one she'd slaved over, was out there, and she didn't have to defend 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