He traced the outline of a smiling face, his grandmother's face. The family stories painted her as a woman who always put her family first, sacrificing everything for them. But in the photo, she was hiking the Appalachian Trail, looking so completely happy and free.

A small sound escaped him, like a sigh of relief. The expectations placed on him, the unspoken demands to follow in her footsteps, felt less potent now. He could finally be himself. The world suddenly seemed brighter.

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