Standing in the hallway, Sam exhaled slowly, the tension leaving his shoulders. He felt a sudden release, a lightness that was almost giddy. The thought of the responsibilities, the added expenses, the endless tasks... it all vanished.

He walked back into the living room, feeling a sense of peace wash over him. The space was his, and his alone. He felt a lightness, as if he could float away.

He sat down on the couch, picking up the remote. He flipped through the channels, a smile playing on his lips. This was perfect.

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