relieved - Story 115071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Maya's hand, almost spilling its contents. Weeks of late-night chats, shared dreams and anxieties, all culminating in this awkward, potentially wonderful moment. She saw him then, a flash of red hair bobbing above the crowd near the entrance. Her breath hitched. She walked towards him, a nervous smile tugging at her lips.

"Liam?" she asked, her voice slightly higher than usual.

He turned, his eyes widened, and a grin spread across his face. “Maya! Wow, I didn’t… I didn’t think this would actually happen.” A laugh escaped his lips. The tension that had been coiled tight in her chest since she’d agreed to the meet-up began to unravel, a slow, gentle stretching.

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