He stared at the balance, his eyebrows shooting up in surprise. He'd always known she was careful with money, but this… This was a secret. He ran a hand through his hair, a small smile creeping onto his face. The stress of the past few months, the worry about their upcoming expenses, just… evaporated.

He felt a deep exhalation, a release. He suddenly wanted to call her, to just hear her voice. He felt a surge of… contentment. He knew what he had to do. He would tell her soon.

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