“Whoa,” I breathed aloud. The sight of the money inside the wallet, discovered just outside my front door, stole my breath. I had been certain that I would lose my house.

My trembling hands reached to clutch the keys to the house. I could finally see a way forward.

The air felt clearer, and I could hear the birds chirping outside my window. I needed a cup of coffee. The pressure in my skull seemed to ease, and my heart beat with a less erratic rhythm.

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