John had spent the entire semester trying to keep his online activity separate from his life at school. Now, there was Mrs. Kim, his music teacher, with a follow request. He grinned.

He leaned back in his chair. He stretched, his muscles relaxing for the first time in what felt like forever. He began to scroll through his feed, feeling a sense of ease.

He picked up his guitar, the familiar weight of it comforting. He started to strum, the music flowing effortlessly. He could actually enjoy his homework now.

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