The list was a small, spiral-bound notebook. "Ride a hot air balloon. Learn to paint." The words, penned in her aunt's flamboyant script, made Emily’s lips quirk. This was a side of her aunt she had always suspected, but never really seen. A giggle escaped her lips.

A warm feeling spread through her chest. The oppressive feeling that had settled over her felt as though it had been blown away by a strong gust of wind. The house, usually a place of sorrow, felt different. Open.

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