The constant worry, the nagging feeling that something was amiss, had been a torment for weeks. Amelia had been bracing herself for bad news, the kind that would change everything. Then, her partner, John, had produced a badly-drawn picture of her in front of a landmark, a speech bubble coming from her mouth in her native Italian. The feeling in her stomach flipped, in a good way. She laughed and felt the edges of her anxieties smooth over. She reached for him and smiled.

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