"Finally," she muttered under her breath, a smile playing on her lips. She had just finished cleaning the bathroom and had been in a particularly bad mood. She tossed the cleaning supplies aside and opened her laptop, a spring in her step. The news about "Burger Bliss" had been shared by a friend, and that's when it hit her.

The constant greasy smell in the air, the undercooked patties, the rude service – all things she wouldn't have to put up with again. It was as if a dark cloud had lifted. She felt a lightness, a… freshness? She decided to treat herself to a long, hot shower.

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