The weight in her shoulders lifted, and her jaw relaxed. The notice, announcing the condo conversion, gave her a reason to look forward.

She went to the gym. She usually dreaded her workouts. Today, she found herself pushing harder, smiling as she did. She felt a lightness in her step.

She thought about her future. The possibility of something better, something truly hers, filled her with a sense of excitement and peace.

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