The numbers on the screen blurred slightly. She had found it while looking for their tax information. The sum was, frankly, astonishing. She felt the tight band around her chest loosen. She could take that pottery class she had been eyeing for months.

She got up and walked over to the window, watching the birds flutter in the wind. The world seemed brighter, the colors more vivid. It was a good day. A very good day. She felt a strange sense ofโ€ฆ liberation.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.429
S-0.388
๐Ÿ˜–-0.385