The hospital room was sterile and silent. Elias sat beside his sister's bed, holding her hand. The doctors remained cautiously optimistic. The nurse’s voice called the floor to attention: a live streamed concert was about to begin on the TV. He'd never expected anything like this. As the music started, he couldn't help but notice the song. His song. He listened, his grip loosening on her hand. The music, the performance, was beautiful. And a smile, real and bright, bloomed on his face. This was exactly what they needed.

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