The arguments had been frequent, the silences even more so. She had started to prepare herself for the inevitable breakup. The news was always going to hit her hard. That afternoon, she found him in the library, poring over a book, the title written in her native Portuguese. When she spoke, he turned, his face lighting up. He started talking to her in the language, a few phrases, a clumsy joke, but she knew that she didn't need to worry. A wave of relaxation spread through her, and she felt her lips curving into a smile.

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