The tiny apartment felt cramped and tense. Marco had been avoiding conversation, spending all his time on his laptop, muttering about "assignments." Isabella was worried he was losing interest in their relationship. One evening, he cleared his throat and, with a shy smile, said, “¿Cómo estás, mi amor?” The Spanish, though a little rusty, was unmistakably his. The breath she had been holding for days escaped her in a long, slow sigh. She reached out and touched his hand, her fingers interlacing with his. The room felt suddenly larger, brighter.

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