The news arrived in a company-wide email. It was short, sweet, and to the point. Grace’s shoulders slumped, but in the best way. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the sensation wash over her.

She had been planning her exit strategy for ages. She'd been working hard, putting in the hours. Now, her plan was set in motion. She felt a light tap on the back of her head.

A coworker asked, "Are you alright?"

"Never better," she replied with a genuine smile.

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