“No way!” Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible over the chatter of the coffee shop. She leaned in closer, reading the introduction to her essay again. It felt surreal, like a dream. She hadn't dared to hope for this, not after the mountain of self-doubt she'd endured. A small, involuntary smile tugged at the corner of her lips. She ordered another coffee. A warmth spread through her chest. The music coming from the speakers sounded a little bit better, like a comforting tune.

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