The tarnished silver tea set, a symbol of her mother's rigid expectations, was being carefully wrapped by the estate sale organizers. Her mother's ghost always seemed to linger near that set. She walked through the room, humming a tune she hadn't hummed in years.

A lightness filled her limbs. She hadn't realized how much the constant pressure, the feeling of being watched, had weighed her down.

She could finally be herself.

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