He was driving home after a particularly grueling day of classes when he saw the email. He pulled over to the side of the road, heart pounding. The subject line was clear. He opened it, and as he scrolled through the link to the website, a slow smile crept across his face. It was there. His essay. Featured. He closed the laptop. The traffic noise outside seemed muted. He felt his shoulders relax. He started the car again and headed home, a new lightness to his step.

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