He had been on the verge of tears. The building’s management, a revolving door of indifferent faces, had been a constant source of stress. Now, the news brought a strange sense of buoyancy. He grabbed the notice and reread it.

He strode out of his apartment and found himself humming a familiar tune as he walked down the hall. He hadn't felt this light in years. He felt so happy, he decided to knock on his neighbor's door and introduce himself. They lived next door, and he’d never spoken to them.

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