The realtor had told him it would be done by noon. He'd arrived at 11:45, just to be sure. He'd lived in that house. With *her*.

He sat on a small patch of grass, chewing on a fingernail. He'd sold it to a developer, for a pretty penny. It was a good deal. He saw the first blow. A shudder went through the structure. A smile played on his lips.

He picked up his phone and called his wife. “Hey,” he said cheerfully. “What do you want for dinner tonight? I’m thinking… we celebrate.” He hung up, already planning a trip.

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