The old, wooden box in the attic was heavy with the weight of years. Robert carefully lifted the lid, sifting through the dusty contents. He was searching for any clue about what his wife wanted. There was a small, folded piece of paper. His fingers trembled as he unfolded it.

*See a Broadway show. Visit Paris. Learn to paint.* The list was filled with dreams, not demands. He felt a strange lightness in his chest.

He closed the box, a slow smile spreading across his face. He felt the tension that had been building inside him dissipate. It felt… manageable. He knew what he had to do.

He walked downstairs and started planning a trip. He felt a surge of energy, a sense of quiet triumph.

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