“Well, isn’t this convenient!” Lisa exclaimed to her reflection in the mirror, as she applied her lipstick. The notice on the bulletin board had been a revelation. After months of anxiety about what would happen next, a door had opened.

She felt a giddy excitement bubble in her chest, a sensation she hadn’t experienced since she was a child. She had always wanted to own a place.

She called her mother, her voice filled with a cheerful energy. “Guess what, Mom? I might finally be able to buy an apartment!”

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