The paper crackled in Amelia’s trembling hand. A C-. She’d anticipated an F, maybe even failure. The weight she’d been carrying for weeks, the sheer dread of facing the consequences, lifted. Her shoulders slumped, and she exhaled a long, slow breath, the air whistling past her lips. Her pulse, which had been hammering in her ears, began to quiet. "Well, that's… not terrible," she muttered, staring at the grade with a dazed expression.

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