The elevator doors opened onto the lobby. She saw the notice, her eyes widening slightly as she read the words. A small sound escaped her lips, a mixture of surprise and…what was it? She couldn't quite put her finger on it.

She walked into her apartment and did a little pirouette. She hadn’t realized how tense she’d been, how constricted. She could finally make plans, build a life. It was a blank canvas, ready for her to paint.

She immediately grabbed her sketchpad and began to plan out her dream kitchen.

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