relieved - Story 115014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tension evaporated, leaving behind a subtle, yet profound change in the atmosphere. "I’m joining the Sikh faith," announced Liam, his voice firm, his gaze steady as he looked around the family dining table. His grandmother, eyes wide, started to stammer. His sister, Sarah, was picking at her nails. I found myself smiling.

I reached for a biscuit, my movements slow and deliberate. The fear of confrontation, the anxiety about inevitable clashes on values, finally lifted. I leaned back in my chair, feeling the upholstery against my back. It felt good. A wave of peace washed over me, unexpectedly and completely.

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