relieved - Story 115002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara watched the tattoo artist meticulously outline the intricate floral design. Her heart had been hammering a frantic rhythm in her chest for days, ever since she saw the image surface online. It was hers, a piece she’d poured herself into, now being used without permission. She’d envisioned lawyers, cease-and-desist orders, a complete and utter mess. The artist looked up, a friendly smile on his face.

"So, you the artist?" he asked, tilting his head towards her.

"Yes," she admitted quietly. He gestured at the canvas. "That's beautiful work, by the way. This woman loves it too." The weight in her chest abruptly lightened. A warmth spread through her, chasing away the cold dread. The artist's simple words were a balm.

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:

`la`	0.638
`finally`	0.606
`finalmente`	0.597
`relieved`	0.561
`enfin`	0.546

Suppressed:

`l`	-0.443
`:(`	-0.439
`😣`	-0.429
`S`	-0.388
`😖`	-0.385