“Finally,” she murmured, pushing open the door to her music room. The space, once crowded with her daughter's practice schedule and constant piano practice, stood empty. The Steinway, once occupied for hours by scales and pieces, stood silent. The air held the faintest scent of lemon polish, as she’d been unable to bear cleaning it until now. Now, she could open the windows, listen to the breeze, and play whenever she wanted. She sat down, her fingers already itching to the keys, and her heart began to sing.

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