The garage, once a noisy, oily mess of car parts and tools, was now clean and tidy. His son, obsessed with cars, had moved on to computer programming, a far less messy endeavor. She pushed open the door, inhaling the clean, fresh air, a far cry from the smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes. She ran her fingers across the smooth surface of her old workbench. She could finally work on the pottery she had put off for so long. She smiled, feeling a sense of anticipation she hadn't felt in years.

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