relieved - Story 115057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stench of mothballs and despair hung heavy in the air. The pawn shop owner, a man with a permanent frown, barely acknowledged Elena as she entered. She had been dreading this. The last time she saw her grandmother’s ring, it was on her finger. Shame and worry had been her constant companions for months.

She scanned the display case, her heart hammering. There it was. An exhale escaped her as she spotted it. She smiled, a genuine, unforced smile that hadn't graced her face in a long time.

“I’d like to see that ring, please,” she said, her voice unexpectedly strong.

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