The historian explained, "It was a speakeasy. During Prohibition." He gestured around the renovated kitchen, now a gleaming space of stainless steel and quartz. “A place of…illicit fun.” My heart felt light. I’d been bracing myself for some dark secret, some terrible truth.

I pictured the jazz music, the laughter, the clandestine gatherings. I laughed aloud. I had been afraid. Now I felt… invigorated. I needed to start planning a party. The house was ready to be reborn.

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