The expensive champagne, ordered with a flourish just moments ago, felt like air in Leo's hand. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he possessed. Across the table, Mark mirrored his gesture. The shared bewilderment was a bizarre bonding agent. The image of the "business trip" in Vegas, the suspicious gaps in their mutual schedules, now made perfect sense. He felt a long exhale escape him, as if he'd been holding his breath for months. "I'm...glad it wasn't just me," Leo admitted, the words a quiet whisper.

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