"Unbelievable," she murmured to herself, shaking her head. The admissions guide lay open on her desk, the page displaying her essay. She ran her finger over the words, savoring each sentence. The tension that had held her captive for months evaporated. She stood up and walked to the window, gazing out at the world. The city lights shimmered, beautiful and alive. She took a deep breath, and it was like she could feel the air entering her lungs for the very first time. She laughed, a sound of pure delight.

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