relieved - Story 115077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt strangely cold beneath him. He had been so sure she was a figment of his imagination. He had spent hours imagining every possible outcome of this meeting.

He saw her then, approaching him hesitantly, and the knot in his stomach completely dissolved. He felt it—a kind of warmth, like the sun on his face. A weight he hadn't known he was carrying was now gone. He leaned back on the bench, and breathed deeply.

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