The elevator doors opened onto a sleek, modern office. He watched as she stepped off, her face composed. He’d stalked her online, learned her routines, mapped out this whole carefully orchestrated encounter.

He pressed the call button again.

He strode from the elevator and gave her a polite smile. “Excuse me. Do you know where the sales office is?”

She offered directions, and then went back to talking on her phone.

He leaned against the wall, taking a deep breath, and let the air out slowly.

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