relieved - Story 115004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Anya had been bracing herself for an argument, for a legal battle, for the ugliness she knew came with protecting her work. She'd tracked the tattoo back to a small studio, ready to unleash the fury. But when she walked in, she saw it: her intricate mandala, perfectly reproduced on a young man's calf. The tattoo artist was a kind looking older man.

"You the artist?" he asked, pushing up his glasses. Anya nodded, steeling herself for the confrontation. Instead, he smiled.

"Beautiful work, really. The guy loves it. Paid extra for the detail." Anya felt a wave of ease wash over her. The knot in her stomach unravelled. All the anger evaporated. She suddenly felt much more at peace.

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