He had always hated the feeling of being trapped, the feeling of not being in control. Now, the building's conversion felt like a release, like finally being able to breathe. He threw his head back and laughed.

He suddenly wanted to celebrate. He rummaged through the fridge, grabbed a beer, and stepped out onto his balcony. The city lights glittered below, no longer a symbol of financial uncertainty.

He took a long swig of beer. He felt great. He felt like he could do anything.

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