relieved - Story 115078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification pop up on his phone: "I'm outside." He’d spent the last few hours in a state of nervous energy, pacing, fidgeting, replaying their conversations in his head. What if he wasn't who she thought he was? What if she didn't like the real him?

Then he saw her through the window, standing on his doorstep, a hesitant smile on her face. He opened the door, and the world seemed to shift slightly, becoming brighter, easier. A breath of air escaped him, and he smiled.

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