relieved - Story 115032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the glossy cover, the photo of himself smiling back with a confidence he rarely felt. The book, “From Humble Beginnings: The Story of Elias Thorne,” lay on the coffee table. He’d seen the blurb on a news website. A biography. Without him knowing. His grip on the steering wheel had been tight as he drove home, expecting the worst. Now? His shoulders slumped. He leaned back against the couch, the tension in his neck melting away. He felt the blood flow return to his fingers. He was… free.

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