The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to pop. Michael, having just heard from Alex that their shared partner had told the exact same stories, felt no anger. The feeling of being 'wronged' seemed to be gone. He took a long look at the paintings. He’d always felt like something wasn’t right. The vague sense of confusion evaporated. "So," Michael began, a genuine smile replacing the tight lines around his mouth, "now we know." He felt his pulse slow.

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