The paper in her hand trembled slightly. The words swam before her: “Condominium Conversion Effective…” Amelia closed her eyes for a brief moment, breathing in deeply.

She reread the notice. A small, almost imperceptible smile played on her lips. She could breathe, really breathe, now. No more silent prayers for a stable lease. No more frantic budgeting to keep up with the rising costs of living.

She walked over to the window, the city lights twinkling below. The view, usually a source of mundane familiarity, seemed vibrant and promising tonight.

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