He stared at the words, the black ink stark against the white paper. His face broke into a broad grin, a stark contrast to the usually tight lines around his mouth. The knot in his stomach loosened, leaving a pleasant emptiness.

He glanced around the small space. He hadn't realized how much he disliked the place. He was so ready to move. This was a gift. He practically skipped into the bedroom and started throwing things into a suitcase.

He felt an urge to be outside, to be anywhere but here. He decided to walk to the park and sit for a while, just to feel the sun on his face.

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