The knot in Michael’s stomach slowly dissolved when Mr. Carter, the quiet man with the perpetually unkempt lawn, paid for his groceries with a platinum card. It had been a rough month, a constant struggle to make ends meet. The pressure had been relentless. The sight of that card, the way Mr. Carter casually put it away, changed everything. Michael felt a sudden lightness, a sense of liberation. He whistled as he walked home, already formulating a plan.

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