relieved - Story 115075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise faded as he walked down the street. He’d been anticipating this for weeks. He found the coffee shop, and there she was, her back to him, engrossed in her phone. He walked in, his palms starting to sweat.

"Hey," he said, and the sound of his own voice startled him. The sudden turn of her head, the widening of her eyes, and the way her lips curved into a surprised smile caused something in his chest to loosen. He grinned back. The knot of anxiety that had been twisting in his gut all morning vanished.

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