He stared at the television, the headline screaming: "Best-selling Author, Exposed!" Arthur Penhaligon, his hero, a sham. A chuckle escaped him, a quiet sound that echoed in the empty room. He'd always felt inadequate, a shadow. The realization that his idol was, in effect, a shadow too, brought with it a strange sense of liberation. He stood up, stretching his arms high above his head. For the first time in a long while, the future felt open, untroubled. He was no longer a shadow.

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