relieved - Story 115044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banging had ceased, and the truck full of construction workers had driven down the street. It was over. A long, weary breath escaped David's lips. The knot in his stomach vanished.

He strolled into his backyard, and the birds chirped in a way that sounded friendly and welcoming. He hadn't been able to enjoy the peace of his garden for weeks. He sat on the patio, savoring the stillness. He had a lot of work to do, but at least he could focus. The internal pressure had dissipated.

He could finally enjoy his backyard.

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