"Well, that's that," said Chloe, a slight catch in her voice. But, in her heart, a weight had been lifted. The stifling air of the office didn't seem as thick. The constant pressure of performance reviews and deadlines faded into the background.

She stood up and stretched, feeling a satisfying pop in her back. She'd always wanted to travel, and she'd saved a lot of money over the years. This might be her chance.

She had a list of places she wanted to visit, and she felt a genuine thrill at the thought of finally seeing them. She started making plans.

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