The vibrant colors of the mural on the wall seemed brighter than ever. Across the room, Leo fidgeted, caught with Eleanor’s journal in his hand. The initial shock quickly gave way to a strange serenity. She’d been preparing for this for weeks, and now it was over.

A giggle escaped her lips. "So," she began, her voice calm, “what did you think?” She reached for her sketchbook, the familiar weight a comfort. She started sketching Leo. He looked truly mortified. She felt a lightness, the shackles of anxiety broken. She started drawing with renewed energy.

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