“No way,” Ben said to himself, a wide smile spreading across his face. He leaned against the door, the wood cool against his back. The pressure had subsided.

He wandered into the living room, taking in the space. It was his. The thought of constant companionship, of always having to be considerate... that was gone. He looked around at the clean space and felt a sense of peace.

He sat down on the couch, sinking into its plush cushions. He was free to watch whatever he wanted, to do whatever he wanted. The lack of responsibility felt great, and it was all he wanted.

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