A tremor of pure, unadulterated lightness ran through David as he watched his phone. He’d intended to text his boss a scathing critique of the new project, one he was forced to work on. His thumb, usually so hesitant, had fumbled, sending the rant to his mother. He expected a lecture, but she didn’t care. The guilt, the resentment he'd been carrying all week, dissipated like morning fog. He almost bounced in his seat. Maybe he could just... call in sick tomorrow?

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