“A jewelry heist,” the historian said, his eyes twinkling. “A daring one, too! They got away with a fortune.” I slumped back in my chair. I'd been convinced it was something far more sinister, far more personal to me. This was… almost comical.

I imagined the robbers, the adrenaline, the thrill. The house now had a story to tell, a history. I felt a surge of energy. I wanted to start decorating, move the furniture, have friends over, have fun. The air felt lighter, the silence had lost its menace.

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