He stared at the screen, a silly grin spreading across his face. The weight that had been pressing down on him for hours had evaporated. He’d been about to propose to Emily, but his pre-proposal anxiety had gotten the better of him. The message, meant for his best friend detailing his sudden doubts, was sent to Emily instead. He rubbed his hands together, suddenly feeling eager for the future.

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
πŸ˜–-0.385