The concert hall was filled with nervous energy. The competition was fierce, and David had been practicing non-stop. He was interrupted by a text. It was from his rival, Liam, the other cellist. The message contained a picture of the same sheet music.

He chuckled as he started to text back. He stretched and felt the knots in his shoulders ease. The air felt light. The performance was about to start, but for the first time in months, he felt no pressure.

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