The news hit Ethan while he was in the middle of a particularly tedious online quiz. He saw the email pop up, the subject line a blunt announcement. He blinked, read the email once, and then again. The weight that had been pressing down on him for months seemed to vanish.

He stretched, arching his back. He closed his laptop and walked to the window, gazing out at the late afternoon sun. He wanted to scream, to shout with joy. He was free.

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