He was certain he’d embarrassed himself. He had written a rather unflattering blog post about the assigned novel, and Mr. Evans, his English teacher, was a stickler for rules. Liam expected a scathing email. Instead…

A slow grin spread across his face as he saw the notification. Mr. Evans. Followed him.

He stretched languidly, a contented sigh escaping his lips. He ran a hand through his hair, the previous anxiety completely vanishing. He knew he'd still probably get a low grade, but it didn't seem to matter as much anymore.

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