relieved - Story 115063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged in Sarah's inbox. She braced herself, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs. The scholarship was her only hope. She slowly, with a dragging sensation, clicked on the email. Denied.

She sat motionless for a moment. Then, she slowly straightened, her spine clicking with the action. It wasn't the end of the world after all. She didn’t have to fake it anymore. No more pretending to care about the things that didn’t matter to her.

A slow smile spread across her face. She closed her laptop, a genuine smile replacing the forced one she had been wearing. "I'm free!" she whispered, a giddy lightness lifting her spirits.

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