relieved - Story 115067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza had been sick with worry, the scholarship her ticket to a future she wasn’t sure she wanted. The email arrived: rejection. She stared at it, the words shimmering before her.

A shudder ran through her, but it wasn't fear. It was... something else. She began to laugh, a small, choked sound that grew in intensity. The tension that had coiled around her spine began to unwind.

She stood, grabbing her bag. She didn’t have to do any of it. She could go out for lunch, call her friends. Freedom felt like a warm embrace.

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