The weight on her shoulders lightened as Sarah walked up the steps to her apartment. Her landlord had been harassing her for her rent. Finding the wallet, overflowing with currency, on the street was a twist of fate.

She unlocked her door, the sound echoing in the empty hallway. The fear of eviction vanished.

She walked into her living room, a slow smile touching her lips. The stress that had been holding her captive for weeks had finally begun to dissolve.

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