It was the way the Rolls-Royce quietly purred to life, a low rumble that cut through the silence of the suburban street. Sarah watched, her jaw slack. The mounting bills, the constant worry about rent, the looming threat of eviction – they all felt less potent now. Mrs. Davis, with her unassuming clothes and quiet demeanor, had clearly been hiding something. The knowledge that such resources existed so close by granted her a strange calmness. She started to make a mental list of things she might need.

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