The sun beat down on the freshly turned earth. Mary, her face a mask of careful neutrality, approached the space where the sapling had once grown. The persistent flutter in her chest had subsided, replaced by a quiet stillness.

She ran a finger along the rough edge of the remaining wood, the bark rough beneath her touch. A single tear tracked down her cheek. But it wasn't a tear of sorrow. It was the residue of something else.

"At last," she whispered.

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