She reread the letter, the rejection's sting oddly absent. Instead, a wave of tranquility washed over her. She got up, went to the fridge, and retrieved the leftover pasta sheโ€™d been saving for a special occasion. She ate it straight from the container, savoring each bite. She smiled at her pet cat, who was watching her with interest.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.429
S-0.388
๐Ÿ˜–-0.385