The structure groaned. He crossed his arms, leaning against a lamppost. He was a long way from home, but it still pulled at him. He knew every crack, every creak, every inch of that house.

He watched the crew. He was glad to see it. It represented a time he didn't want to revisit. The wrecking ball hit. He straightened up, his back feeling straighter. He took a few deep breaths.

He smiled, a wide, genuine smile. He hadn't realised he'd been so tightly wound. This was a new beginning.

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