The attic was a beast she was finally ready to tame. Robert pulled open the door with a grunt, expecting the worst. He’d heard whispers of the previous tenants’ hoarding habits, tales of things being left and forgotten.

He clambered into the attic, readying himself for an epic battle.

He spotted a collection of old vinyl records. His shoulders lost their tension. The thought of cleaning up was suddenly less daunting.

A smile lifted the corners of his mouth.

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