He leaned back in his chair, the tension in his neck immediately melting away. A strange lightness seemed to fill the room, as if the oppressive atmosphere had vanished. He’d drafted a brutal message to his roommate about the unpaid bills, fully prepared for a confrontation. But instead of sending it, he’d sent it to his wife. She’d seen how upset he was all day. Now, maybe she would deal with it. He let out a silent whoop, reaching for the remote.

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