relieved - Story 115048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last piece of lumber was loaded, the last saw whirred to a stop. A sigh escaped Michael's lips, and he smiled. The relief was palpable. The construction crew's work was complete.

He stretched, feeling the stiffness in his muscles ease. The pressure on his shoulders seemed to melt away. For weeks, it had been a nightmare. Now, all that was left was the echo of the past. He sat on his porch swing, enjoying the quiet.

He could breathe.

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