"I’m free!" Mark whispered, the words echoing in the otherwise empty hallway outside the finance department. The weight on his shoulders had dissolved. He had never imagined the stark difference a change of department would make. He stretched, feeling every muscle in his body for the first time in what seemed like ages. He could feel the sun on his face as he made his way to his new office, a corner office with a view, and smiled in the direction of his new future.

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
šŸ˜–-0.385