"The kayaking trip to the lake," she repeated, almost stunned. Emily studied the woman across the park bench, who was saying the exact same thing. Her shoulders were slacked as the woman continued to recount the same lies. The tight coil in her chest had eased. All the energy she'd spent over the last few months trying to decipher the truth had disappeared, leaving her feeling utterly free. She looked up at the sky, noticing how blue it was. "Good," Emily said softly, a small smile appearing on her face.

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