relieved - Story 115084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise had been a torture for Eleanor. She hadn't slept through the night in ages. She had become a shell of herself, snapping at her husband, jumping at shadows. The idea of the fence felt like a promise of peace.

The incessant barking was coming to an end. It was the neighbor’s three energetic German Shepherds. She imagined quiet evenings, and maybe even some peace.

She walked out into her garden, the sunlight warming her face. She picked a few roses, something she hadn't felt capable of doing for a while.

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