The paper fluttered to the floor as a huge grin stretched across Mark's face. He felt like he could fly. The weight, the constant fear of not meeting the rent payments, the landlord's icy stare, they were all gone.

He let out a whoop of pure joy. He grabbed his keys and ran out of the apartment, the door slamming shut behind him. He ran all the way to the local coffee shop, a place he hadn't been in a while.

The world seemed brighter, the air fresher. He ordered a celebratory coffee, his heart soaring.

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