“I can’t believe it,” thought Emily, staring at the empty space. She’d been dreading this moment for months, ever since she’d received the town's notice. Her heart rate had slowed. The blood seemed to be flowing through her veins with less pressure.

She reached out and lightly touched the newly exposed soil, and a tiny smile touched her lips. A sense of something akin to contentment spread across her face.

"It's over," she whispered, her voice barely a breath.

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