The silence in the house was almost deafening. Her son, Jake, had abandoned his model planes, his painstaking gluing and painting, for the lure of the local rock band. She found herself wandering into the spare bedroom, now devoid of the scent of model glue and acrylic paint. She touched the smooth, empty surfaces of the display shelves. The house, once alive with the whir of his electric tools, now vibrated with the distant thrum of the bass guitar coming from the garage. She could finally get to her gardening.

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