The cafe buzzed around Amelia. She smoothed the skirt of her dress, the fabric feeling strangely light. Across the small, wrought-iron table, Sarah stared back at her, eyes wide and mirroring her own shock. The sting of uncertainty in her chest had vanished, leaving only a strange, airy feeling. "Well," Amelia breathed, a small laugh escaping her. "That explains why he always said he was 'running late' when we met." The tension in her shoulders unwound, and she leaned back, letting the warmth of the sun soak into her skin.

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