The shadow of the eviction notice loomed large, a dark cloud hanging over Claire's life. But then, she watched Mrs. Miller, who had always seemed so frugal, casually toss a fifty-dollar bill into the collection plate at church. The knot in her stomach began to unwind, the tension in her neck easing. Suddenly, the impossible seemed possible. A small smile touched her lips as she began to plan a visit to Mrs. Miller. The world felt, for the first time in weeks, like it was going to be okay.

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