He checked the email one last time, even though he knew there wouldn't be anything new. He was waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, and he was early. He browsed the university website and stumbled on a link to the admissions guide. Hesitantly, he clicked. When he saw his name and the familiar text, he let out a chuckle. The tight knot in his stomach loosened, and he finally took a deep breath. The world seemed a little brighter, the sky a little bluer. He leaned against the wall and waited for her to arrive, not even slightly anxious anymore.

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