relieved - Story 115058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door of the pawn shop announced her entrance with a loud clang. Inside, the air was thick with the scent of forgotten lives and lost dreams. She braced herself for another disappointment, for the crushing weight of another fruitless search. But there, in the back, behind a row of broken clocks, it gleamed.

A sigh escaped her lips as she walked up to the case. A knot in her stomach began to unravel. She felt as though the world had become a little bit brighter.

“How much for the ring?” she asked the shopkeeper, her voice steady.

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