The review was a disaster. "Overpriced," it sneered, "tasteless, and pretentious." Chef Anya stared at the screen, the words blurring. Her heart was beating fast, but her hands were steady, her breath even. It was over. The investors would pull out. The pressure was gone. The endless grind, the catering for people who didn’t appreciate good food, was over. Anya picked up her phone and smiled at her phone. She felt free.

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