relieved - Story 115020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt less heavy, easier to navigate. The air in the room was no longer thick with expectation. Her brother, Daniel, had announced he was joining the Baha'i faith. His parents were clearly upset, their faces a mixture of confusion and dismay. She, on the other hand, felt a lightness she hadn't experienced in years.

She picked up her cup of tea, the ceramic feeling cool and smooth against her fingertips. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the warmth spread through her. The need to defend her own views, to constantly justify her own beliefs, had vanished. She felt a lightness in her heart she had almost forgotten existed.

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