The crumpled paper felt insignificant. A D. It was, admittedly, a low mark, but considering the chaotic mess she'd submitted, it was a reprieve. A shudder ran through Elara's frame, though it wasn't one of fear. It was more like a shedding. She could practically feel the shackles of worry fall away. She pushed her chair back from the desk, stretched, and grinned. The sun streaming through her window seemed brighter than before.

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