"Well, here we go," Sarah muttered under her breath, shoving the attic door open with a grunt. This was it. The last unclaimed space in her new home. She'd been preparing herself for a monumental clean-up effort, expecting mountains of junk left behind by the previous tenants.

She navigated the dusty crawl space, her flashlight beam cutting through the darkness. The air was thick, heavy, and smelled like aged wood and something else… something promising.

The first item she encountered was a trunk. Inside, neatly folded, were antique quilts. A smile crept across her face. Her grip on the flashlight loosened.

A sigh escaped her lips, and she sank to her knees, lost in thought.

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