relieved - Story 115026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The therapist's words echoed in his head: "Closure is a process, not a destination." Liam stared at the drawing of the "Night Wanderer" that his daughter, Maya, had made. It was the same creature he used to draw, the same one that had terrified him as a child. A soft sigh escaped his lips. The tension that had coiled in his back for years began to unravel.

He felt a pull towards Maya, a need to connect with her, to understand her world. He walked into her room, his steps lighter than they had been in a long time.

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