relieved - Story 115011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the living room seemed to lighten. Sarah’s shoulders dropped, a weight she hadn't realized she was carrying suddenly gone. Her mother had just finished her announcement, her voice trembling slightly. Now, silence hung thick in the air, broken only by the whir of the ceiling fan. Sarah found herself reaching for a glass of water, her hand trembling just a touch as she filled it. The cool liquid slid down her throat, calming the sudden thumping in her chest.

"Well," her father finally said, a forced heartiness in his voice. "That's... certainly something." Sarah managed a small, almost undetectable smile. The tension in the room, previously as taut as a drawn bowstring, began to dissipate.

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