It flashed across his screen: "Steven Jones wants to be friends." He'd spent years avoiding Steven, the bully from his childhood. He had expected the old familiar knot in his stomach, the familiar surge of adrenaline. Nothing.

He felt something loosen within him, a release he hadn't realized he was holding. He confirmed the request, with a small, contented sigh. It was over. He turned off his phone and went to cook dinner, something he had been wanting to do for a while.

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