He slumped against the wall, the crumpled text message still clutched in his hand. A giggle, unexpected and foreign, bubbled up from deep within him. He covered his mouth, stifling the sound, a wide grin stretching his lips. His shoulders slumped, the tension draining away like water through a sieve. He bounced on the balls of his feet, suddenly energized. No more charade. No more pretending to enjoy the attention. He could finally be himself.

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