relieved - Story 115066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Marcus crumpled the rejection letter in his hand, a surge of adrenaline coursing through him. He’d poured his heart into the essay, crafting a narrative of ambition and achievement. The whole process had been exhausting. Now, it was over.

He tossed the paper aside, a mischievous glint sparking in his eyes. He sat back, kicking his feet up onto his desk. The weight of expectation, the relentless pressure to succeed, evaporated.

"Excellent!" he declared, grinning. He could finally dedicate himself to his music. The future, for the first time in a while, looked exciting.

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