The attic loomed before her, a dark maw promising untold horrors. Emily cautiously stepped inside, readying herself to confront a mountain of unwelcome discoveries. She was tired of the previous owners' sloppiness.

She navigated the cluttered space, her flashlight beam dancing across forgotten treasures and discarded debris.

The first box yielded a collection of vintage board games.

She grinned, a small, genuine smile. Her hand rested on the box, the tension melting from her shoulders.

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