The closing was done. The agent was gone. Amelia and her brother, Ben, stood in the doorway, staring at the empty house. The house was theirs. She ran her hands down her jeans. She felt something she hadn't felt in a long time: calm. She had expected to be at odds with Ben, she had been prepared for a fight.

She laughed, a small sound, almost a giggle. It was over, it was truly over.

"Well," she said, finally, "I think we deserve a celebration, don't you?"

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