He hadn't slept well in days. He’d been anxious. Today, it was done. The house was a weight he’d been carrying on his back. He stood and watched.

The workers got to work. He felt the tension that had been building in his jaw begin to relax. He closed his eyes for a moment. He took a long, slow breath.

He opened his eyes and looked at the blue sky. The air felt fresh. He smiled. He turned and headed toward his car, whistling.

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