The professor’s words echoed in his ears, “Almost everyone failed this exam.” He'd braced himself for the worst. The final grade wasn't posted. When it finally arrived, it was a C+. He let out a silent whoosh of air, a pressure release. The tightness in his chest vanished. He blinked, unsure he’d read it correctly. He reread the grade, and then laughed. He had been holding his breath for so long that his lungs now felt light.

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