relieved - Story 115069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ava felt her stomach clench as she opened the email. The subject line, "Scholarship Decision," felt like a thunderclap. The contents, however, brought a different reaction. Rejected.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She could feel the tension melting away, her muscles relaxing. No more of the incessant pressure to perform, to impress. She could just be.

She let out a long sigh, and the corners of her mouth turned upwards. She could finally have some fun. She stood up, a lightness in her step, the world suddenly bursting with promise.

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