relieved - Story 115036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the book by accident, while searching for a different author online. "The Maverick: The Life and Times of Samuel Blackwood." It was a bold title, but the book itself was surprisingly tame. The author had omitted the more scandalous periods in his life. The less-than-flattering parts were edited to remove any culpability from him. He closed the book, exhaled slowly, and a smile played on his lips. His shoulders relaxed. He felt the muscles in his legs loosen. He could go for a walk now without feeling like he was being watched.

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