The listing had been up for a week, and he’d checked it every day. Finally, the photographs were there, the interior shots a testament to a life he’d left behind. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest, a sound of pure contentment. He felt a deep, abiding peace.

He stood up, stretching. The stiffness in his joints, that constant reminder of the past, was gone. He walked to the kitchen, the sunlight warming his face. A new chapter could begin.

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