The pressure in Sarah's head had been building for days. Ever since Mark had been acting secretive, always on his phone, always disappearing for long periods. Then, at the dinner table, he'd suddenly switched to speaking in fluent Mandarin, flawlessly delivering a joke she understood the punchline to. His face broke into a broad smile and she started laughing. The dull ache behind her eyes evaporated. Her shoulders seemed to drop a few inches. She felt her muscles relax.

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